In <a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom>,
on 08/24/2010
at 07:40 AM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> said:
>There are not truly "stack based" as Shmuel was talking about. True
>"stack based" machines don't have general purpose registers.
It's possible to have a stack based machine with general registers.
That might come in handy for, e.g., shuffling the stack. None of the
stack based machines that I'm aware of do that.
>On a PC, this overwrites memory.
You can get around that with guard pages.
--
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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