Kernel Calling Conventions

Greetings all,
I was reading the "FreeBSD Assembly Language Programming" tutorial
(http://www.int80h.org/bsdasm/), when I came across something that
piqued my curiosity.

The C calling convention is touted as being more convenient, and
superior to the calling convention used by linux and microsoft of
passing arguments within registers. I was wondering if this is just a
bias on the part of the writer or what.

What are the actual advantages of popping the arguments onto to the
stack as opposed to passing them via registers?

Thanks in advance, :)
Kyle

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