Re: Function calls

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

. There's also a section "Function calls" in a recent draft.
I expect that this section says something similar, to the effect that
during the evaluation of a function call, control is transferred to
the called function, but I was not able to find such wording!

  Now, some might say that C references "ISO/IEC 2382:2015,
  Information technology — Vocabulary" which defines "call".
  But this (at least in the second edition) defines a "call"
  to be an /instruction/, not a runtime event.

  The C specification uses the wording "before the actual call",
  which wording requires a call to be a runtime event.

  So, although "ISO/IEC 2382" then (in its second edition)
  explains that a call is an instruction to "transfer control
  from one module to another" it does not blend in well -
  and it still does not tell us from which "module" to which
  "module" control is transfered in the case of a call in C.