Re: Compiler Recommendations

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:14:45 -0500 
"Bill Bogstad" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Depends on what you mean by "isomorphic to a stack".  A doubly linked list 
> of function activation records allocated on a heap is a little 
> different from a stack. 
> When you consider that longjmp()/setjmp() will end up deallocating 
> from the middle 
> of the linked list, it looks even less like a stack to me... 

Many data structures can be used to implement a stack. Regardless of 
how it is implemented, a hosted C implementation must behave according 
to the applicable standards. So, whether registers are used as 
arguments, or whether a linked list is used, or whether there is a 
stack instruction set the application must allow for recursion, as well 
as set up the appropriate sequence points, and setjmp/longjmp, stdarg 
and exit. 


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