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You just push the stack into the heap, and don't have a specific area which is the stack area. It's pretty common as a technique if you have something such as c
by jlouis 5y ago
You just push the stack into the heap, and don't have a specific area which is the stack area. It's pretty common as a technique if you have something such as call-with-current-continuation.
The "stack" is still there in this case, but spread out over multiple heap blocks.
- bjoli 5y agoGuie Scheme does something similar then. It expands the call stack so that you can't have a stack overflow. Pretty neat since it allows you to write recursive functions without accumulators. I suspect something like that is a bigger deal in eagerly evaluated languages.