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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Argument Passing in C
Keywords: What *really* happens...
Message-ID: <289@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 21:29:39 GMT
References: <2235@ssc-vax.UUCP> <12187@steinmetz.ge.com> <69210@sun.uucp> <510@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <510@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
...An example of a machine with a nearly useless hardware stack is the 6502.
...The stack pointer is an 8-bit register, and the first eight bits of the
...hardware stack pointer address are optionally definable by a jumper.
...As a consequence, the hardware stack is only 256 bytes long.  If you
...want to do anything more complicated than a simple video game, or perhaps
...a simple process control system, plan on building your own stack 
...manipulation subroutines.

Yas, and for Gawd's sakes, don't even think about designing a personal
computer around it!!  ;-)

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