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From: sam@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (S. Manoharan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: RISC and emulated languages
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Date: 2 May 89 10:05:09 GMT
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Just wondering.

I hear that the RISC (Berk) was designed with a view of supporting C.
How would the register windowing help in processing C functions!
( In C args are passed by value rather than reference;
Register windowing, on the other hand, supports call by reference )


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