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On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 10:57:42 AM UTC-5, MitchAlsup wrote:
> Do yourself (and everyone else) a favor and don't.
> 
> That is, let the stack, which is an inherently software feature, be defined in a way that best fits the needs of the software, by those who have to maintain the software.

So you prefer the Alpha approach of the LINK register being a normal register,
as opposed to the more typical special register that is mostly hidden?

You can throw some special hardware at LINK, but I think most just use a register.
Is the idea of throwing extra hardware at LINK just futile duplication?