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From: mac@esl.UUCP (Mike McNamara)
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: Sat, 6-Dec-86 15:01:58 EST
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In article <5428@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>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.


   Actually, the _important_ reference is, as Chris Torek pointed out, 
   /usr/include/machine/frame.h, or equivilent. This tells you what your
   machine does.
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 Michael Mc Namara                 
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