Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C stack frame sizes Message-ID: <4739@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 14:45:31 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4739 Posted: Thu Dec 6 14:45:31 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 14:45:31 EST References: <2400@pur-ee.UUCP>, <1397@ritcv.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 > ... does the Berkeley RISC require a parallel stack, > maintained by software protocols, to hold structures, arrays, and other > humongous local variables? The RISC needs a memory stack anyway, because of the possibility that the "register stack" will overflow. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry