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Portability Constraints

This section attempts to explain some of the reasons behind the new VICAR portability rules. While the rest of this document concentrates on the what and how, this section goes into the why behind the major design decisions. Most of the changes in VICAR and the RTL are a direct consequence of portability constraints.

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• Variable Arguments
• Data Types
• Language Differences
• Mixed-Language Interface
• Subroutine Names