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: <4720@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:59:01 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4720 Posted: Mon Dec 3 12:59:01 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:59:01 EST References: <2400@pur-ee.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 > I commonly put up to a megabyte into a single stack frame. ... > > I wonder what this type of programming style would do to a Berkeley style > RISC machine? Not much. RISC compilers are supposed to display some intelligence about data structures that are obviously too big to fit in the register bank. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry