Re: what is a stack

From: Sudsy (bitbucket44_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:33:22 -0400

Roedy Green wrote:
<snip>
> When a method returns, it pops its locals off the stack and restores
> the instruction pointer to what it used to be in the caller.
>
> I forget who pops the parameters, the caller or the callee. I vaguely
> recall the callee.

Remember BALR 12,13? And the STM 11,15 which typically proceeded?
Yes, it's normally up to the callee to reset the stack to the
state upon calling, although it can set it up by a fullword in
order to store the return value...
Was that fun or what?!
(most youngsters will find themselves asking WHAT?)

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