C stack frame sizes

[grunwald at uiucdcsb.UUCP]

/* Written  9:27 pm  Nov 30, 1984 by malcolm at ecn-ee in uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */
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I wonder what this type of programming style would do to a Berkeley style
RISC machine?

								Malcolm
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On the pryamid, which is essentially a Berkeley style RISC machine, the
array would be stored in real memory, not registers. Same goes for structs
and (I think) unions.
   They only keep the "normal stuff" in registers. So, if you defined:

	int *i, j[1000], *k;

both "i" and "k" would be in registers and j would be in memory.