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
next prev parent 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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