Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT

[Simon Wright <simon@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.
   
   JMS FOO    / CALL SUBROUTINE FOO
   

   FOO, +0    / STORED RETURN ADDRESS
   ...
   JMP I FOO  / RETURN

(we only had capitals)

--S