Um, don't the descendants of the 8086 -- you know, those pesky PCs -- have a stack implemented in hardware?
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
