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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: alloca(), #if, and other controversial things...
Message-ID: <1257@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 09:16:33 GMT
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In article <355@sdrc.UUCP>, scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
> Just to confuse the discussion further, what about machines /
> operating systems which do not have a stack?

I would expect an implementation of C on such a machine to provide a
stack, implemented in software to the extent that it isn't supported by
the hardware.  Not that it must, of course; I can imagine a C compiler
for a Lisp Machine which doesn't put automatics on the stack.  But I
would be somewhat surprised to find one that didn't.

					der Mouse

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