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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How many stacks? (WAS: alloca(), #if, and other controversial things...)
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Date: 21 Aug 88 17:39:02 GMT
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smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
>I don't understand: the concept of a single big general purpose stack is
>fundamental to any language that implements recursion.

I think that coroutines for a recursive language are most naturally
implemented in a language that has multiple stacks.

		;-D on  ( Vote for "None of the above" )  Pardo
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