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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
> Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Not true. As defined in the standard, a specific local is at a fixed
>> offset. Hence the requirements below.
> 
> Hmm, point taken, so it is possible to use a fixed offset from the
> pointer.  But how can it be?  There are DO ... LOOPs, after all.

Argh, thinko of mine.  Of course, DO ... LOOPs are statically nested
so you can just count them.  Fair enough.

There is therefore even less reason for a separate locals stack.  It's
just a bunch of items on the return stack.

Andrew.