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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:10:14 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2010-03-19T20:10:14+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xns9D40A47E8775BWarrensBlatherings@188.40.43.245> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2bpeknq9p.fsf@pushface.org

Simon Wright expounded in news:m2bpeknq9p.fsf@pushface.org:

> tmoran@acm.org writes:
> 
>> IIRC, the Burroughs 6500 had what they called a "cactus stack" where
>> branching would occur for new threads.  And there was a Texas
>> Instruments microprocessor that had no real stack, but rather a set
>> of registers that could be saved to RAM on a subroutine call.
>> These preceded DOS.
> 
> The PDP-8 worked like that; the JMS instruction stored the return
> address in the first word of the subroutine, execution started at the
> next word.

That was the way with the IBM-1130 as well. Not too
good for recursive calls though. 

Warren



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-17 19:21 segfault with large-ish array with GNAT Jerry
2010-03-17 19:36 ` Gautier write-only
2010-03-17 19:58   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-03-18  6:45     ` Jerry
2010-03-18  7:52       ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-18 23:57         ` Robert A Duff
2010-03-18 10:13       ` Jeffrey Creem
2010-03-18 10:23         ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-19  0:44           ` Jerry
2010-03-18 19:51         ` Adam Beneschan
2010-03-18 14:44       ` John B. Matthews
2010-03-19  4:44         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-03-19  8:14           ` John B. Matthews
2010-03-18 15:36       ` Gautier write-only
2010-03-18 16:46       ` tmoran
2010-03-18 19:11         ` Warren
2010-03-18 17:03       ` Warren
2010-03-18 20:38         ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-03-19 13:26           ` Charmed Snark
2010-03-19 17:27             ` tmoran
2010-03-19 18:02               ` Simon Wright
2010-03-19 20:10                 ` Warren [this message]
2010-03-19 21:50                 ` Adam Beneschan
2010-03-19 20:24               ` Warren
2010-03-19 20:38           ` Warren
2010-03-19  8:31         ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-03-19 13:20           ` Warren
2010-03-19 12:04       ` Brian Drummond
2010-03-19 19:22         ` Jerry
2010-03-19 20:22         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-03-19 23:24           ` Jerry
2010-03-20  0:25             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-05-07 21:58       ` Raising the stack limit (was: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT) Björn Persson
2010-03-17 19:57 ` segfault with large-ish array with GNAT jonathan
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