It did. I have fond memories (no doubt in part shaped by Stockholm syndrome) of writing a Pascal(ish) compiler targeting the SPARC ISA as an undergrad back in 1

It did. I have fond memories (no doubt in part shaped by Stockholm syndrome) of writing a Pascal(ish) compiler targeting the SPARC ISA as an undergrad back in 1993 based on four? pages of ISA documentation. As I recall, handling procedure calls and returns was quite elegant.