In <002d01cb42cf$384d88e0$a8e89a...@org>, on 08/23/2010
at 10:26 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> said:
>Not sure that I understand the question but perhaps the answer is
>that unlike machines you may have used in the past, "standard" OS
>architecture and linkage does not use a stack,
It's unlikely that he has worked on a stack machine; AFAIK, the only
ones still on the market are the Unisys boxen descended from the
B6500. He may have encountered conventions for using a particular
register as a stack pointer, but that is just another arbitrary
software convention of the type he was asking about.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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