Threading in C (Re: RRe: What's so good about FORTH?

[Gregory Smith]

In article <223 at cci632.UUCP> rb at ccird1.UUCP (Rex Ballard) writes:
>There seems to be a little confusion about threading here.  All that is
>*really* required for threading is a parameter stack that is separate
>from the program/return stack.
>
The DEC PDP-11 FORTRAN compiler can produce threaded code, and only uses
the hardware stack. If you want the language to be stack-based ( from
the point of view of the programmer, i.e. expressions in RPN ) and you
want data pushed by a caller to be poppable by the callee, then separate
stacks are the best way to do it. That is a characteristic of forth, but
I don't think that it is a characteristic of threaded code.

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Greg Smith     University of Toronto      UUCP: ..utzoo!utcsri!greg