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<h3 class="section" id="Multiple-ABIs-1"><span>2.4 Multiple ABIs<a class="copiable-link" href="#Multiple-ABIs-1"> &para;</a></span></h3>

<p>A given platform may provide multiple different ABIs at once.  For
instance, the x86 platform has both &lsquo;<samp class="samp">stdcall</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp class="samp">fastcall</samp>&rsquo;
functions.
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<p><code class="code">libffi</code> provides some support for this.  However, this is
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