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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: C stack frame sizes
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:59:01 EST
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> 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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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