> Note that the x86 was originally designed as a Pascal machine, which is why there are instructions to support nested functions (enter, leave), the pascal call

> Note that the x86 was originally designed as a Pascal machine, which is why there are instructions to support nested functions (enter, leave), the pascal calling convention in which the callee pops a known number of arguments from the stack (ret K), bounds checking (bound), and so on. Many of these operations are now obsolete. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26323215/do-any-languages-compilers-utilize-the-x86-enter-instruction-with-a-nonzero-ne http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26323215/do-any-languages...