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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Pascal Calling Convention
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:09:39 -0400
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> On 3/25/2011 12:04 PM, Robert A Duff wrote:
>> There must be a stack.
>
> Why?

Because Ada supports recursion, which implies a LIFO data structure --
a stack.  One per task, in fact.

- Bob