What does “cdecl” stand for?

Question

Yes, I know that \"cdecl\" is the name of a prominent calling convention, so please don\'t explain calling conventions to me. What I\'m asking is what the abbreviation (?) \"cd

Answer 1

Updated I've totally revised this, after the comments pointing out how wrong I was. cdecl means that this function uses the same calling convention that C functions use. extern "C" means, in addition, that the function name should not undergo C++ name-mangling.

As for why it's called cdecl, I don't know any more.