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Genuinely curious: do you know of any C implementations that do not use a stack for such cases? It seems so prevalent that locally-scoped variables are often r

• shadowofneptune 4y ago
  I was curious about this, and I found this passage in the 2007 draft of the C standard: > 6.5.2.2.11: Recursive function calls shall be permitted, both directly and indirectly through any chain of other functions. This either means using stack frames, or heap-allocating activation records and tying them together with references. Second is a much rarer approach.
• dcminter 4y ago
  Didn't sparc targetted C use register windows? Cursory searching didn't clarify much for me though.