function calls

[Tim Olson]

In article <12350 at goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
| What I would like to see is a register-set that acts as the cache for
| a virtual stack in a machine with true stack machine instructions. That
| would be my idea of a really good time, although it might put some graph
| colorers out of business, having no registers to allocate. Does anybody
| know if such a scheme was proposed for SPARC, and if so, why it was
| rejected? Seems like such a win, and not all that big a step
| beyond the register-window approach.

This was the approach used in the AT&T CRISP processor.


	-- Tim Olson
	Advanced Micro Devices
	(tim at amd.com)