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Many ISAs do not provide any specific stack handling instructions, and yet a C ABI is based on a stack model very similar to x86 one. Instructions are irrelevan
by sklogic 11y ago
Many ISAs do not provide any specific stack handling instructions, and yet a C ABI is based on a stack model very similar to x86 one. Instructions are irrelevant, ABI is only a convention.
- lmm 11y agoSure. But I think it's fair to say that a structure that's part of the ABI is more distinguished/fundamental than an ordinary datastructure defined in the language.