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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: who called a C routine - get it from the stack frame
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Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 10:51:53 EST
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In article <961@cuuxb.UUCP> wbp@cuuxb.UUCP (Walt Pesch) writes:
>... A generic System V stack frame look like:

It is perhaps worth pointing out for people who aren't really into
language technology that there is no such thing as a "generic"
System V stack frame.  Such details are necessarily implementation-
specific.  The classic reference for this is Bell Labs CSTR No. 102,
"The C Language Calling Sequence" by S. C. Johnson and D. M. Ritchie.