Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 18 Mar, 18:03, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:

> With the new focus on parallel cores etc., I've often pondered
> what a future CPU without a stack might look like. Imagine
> a CPU that somehow in microcode was able to do a fast-malloc
> of a stack frame

There is no need to do that in microcode - the compiler decides what
does it mean to call a subprogram and what does it mean to allocate
the "frame", so you might simply have a compiler that implements these
concepts in terms of a dynamically allocated linked list.
I vaguely remember reading about a C compiler that did exactly that a
while ago - but I fail to find it in Google due to the noise from
billions of tutorials with stacks and lists. :-)

Today you might find this idea implemented in just about any
*interpreter*.

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