[inkyoto]

Quite uniform != completely uniform.

Especially when it comes to C (less so C++), it is a remarkably adaptable language that has been able to attune to a variety of vastly incompatible hardware architectures, including stack based ones, heap based ones and some esoteric ones as well. Yet, in the case of conventional, register based ISA's, the ABI has been remarkably similar: nonwithstanding actual ISA specific register names, registers 0…N (apart from RISC ISA's where storing into/loading from the register 0 is a no-op / zero constant) are used as input parameters and register 0 (where available) is used as the function return value (provided it can fit in); otherwise the return result is returned via stack.

[chrisseaton]

> Quite uniform != completely uniform

Don't know if you're a non-native speaker, but no 'quite' usually does means 'completely'!

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/quite

[guenthert]

Only when used with non-gradable adjectives/adverbs (from the same surce: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/qui... ) (and yes, uniform, is quite non-gradable)

(non-native speaker here, quite frustrated about the quite different meanings of 'quite')

[chrisseaton]

'Quite dead' for example means completely dead.

[Dylan16807]

Only because dead is so binary. Any moderately intense modifier on "dead" signifies complete death, even though it won't mean 'completely' with most terms.