Fortran programmers abused the stack in astonishing ways. They used to calculate offsets on the stack to variables in the previous frame you already returned fr

Fortran programmers abused the stack in astonishing ways. They used to calculate offsets on the stack to variables in the previous frame you already returned from. The details of stack layout were coded into important applications. Intel designers tried to do better, but the Fortran people pushed back, hard.