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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: register save
Message-ID: <1991Mar07.205132.22119@kithrup.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 20:51:32 GMT
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In article <3228@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  All this got me thinking that another bit of memory access which
>could be saved on a call is the return address. 

Oh, almost everyone does that these days.  i860, MIPS, Sparc?, Cray, 88k,
etc.  (After all, if you don't have a stack, where are you going to put the
return address except in a register?)

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