C stack frame sizes

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Fri Dec 7 05:45:31 AEST 1984


> ... 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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