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Nitpicky detail: a lot of the time, the pointer variable passed to be written to is not on the stack, e.g. using strcpy with a malloc'd buffer.
by kupiakos 8y ago
Nitpicky detail: a lot of the time, the pointer variable passed to be written to is not on the stack, e.g. using strcpy with a malloc'd buffer.
- mianos 8y agoI believe he is taking about the native retuning semantics, which is in a real register for simple types or organised to be on the stack by the caller or register frame for a larger value type. Point being, it's a compact primitive reflection of the machine, not much more.