How many stacks? (WAS: alloca(), #if, and other controversial things...)

David Keppel pardo at june.cs.washington.edu
Mon Aug 22 03:39:02 AEST 1988


smryan at 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
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