Re: The C Stack in interpreters - why?

nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
14 May 2005 16:54:25 -0400

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From: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 14 May 2005 16:54:25 -0400
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
References: 05-05-072 05-05-073 05-05-084
Keywords: C, code, history, comment
Posted-Date: 14 May 2005 16:54:25 EDT

>[Are there really systems with a hardware stack that C doesn't use?
>I've never seen one. -John]


There certainly were. I am pretty sure that at least one of the
VAX ones fell into that category.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
[Hmmn. The Vax certainly did have the world's most heavyweight
call-and-set-up-a-stack-frame-and-a-lot-of-other-stuff instruction. I
can easily believe that a C compiler would use the lighter weight JSB
rather than CALLS, but it's still on the R14 hardware stack. -John]

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