If you have 29 arguments, I assure that you some of them are on the stack in nearly every architecture in use. Also, certain types as parameters also get passed on the stack (usually types larger than a register, or in C++ code, objects with nontrivial constructors or destructors).
replySure, but he still came up with a 2005 blog post, and attached a 2026 to it. No optimizing C compiler cares for the 2nd arg, when it's a register anyway. And if the 1st is constant, the dead branch is folded away. So the 2nd arg is dead
replyThe vast majority of virtual machines, including JVM and .NET, are stack based.
replyAnd, whilst compiling C and C++ the JVM / .NET CLR byte codes is very uncommon, both VM's have become very popular compilation targets for other programming languages.