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Roughly speaking, return addresses were stored in a fixed location ... the idea of a stack of return frames hadn't been invented for "high performance" language
by ColinWright 6y ago
Roughly speaking, return addresses were stored in a fixed location ... the idea of a stack of return frames hadn't been invented for "high performance" languages.
- Jtsummers 6y agoAnd it wasn't just the return addresses, often the local variables were stored in a fixed location as well. Like using the static keyword in C, but as the default (and often only) behavior.