Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!pardo From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: How many stacks? (WAS: alloca(), #if, and other controversial things...) Message-ID: <5531@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 21 Aug 88 17:39:02 GMT References: <8808171410.AA05337@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1259@garth.UUCP> <5250@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <1270@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 11 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 -- pardo@cs.washington.edu {rutgers,cornell,ucsd,ubc-cs,tektronix}!uw-beaver!june!pardo