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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C stack frame sizes
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 14:45:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 14:45:31 1984
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> ... 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.
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