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From: blc@mentat.COM (Bruce Carneal)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Optimal Computer Architectures
Message-ID: <334@mentat.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 12:10:19 GMT
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Reply-To: blc@mentat.UUCP (Bruce Carneal)
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For tail calls at least, the responsibility/blame for
excessive window overflows lies with the compiler, not
the architecture.  Hopefully the newer compilers
for the SPARC do/will handle tail calls without stack
growth.