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Am 05.07.2025 um 14:21 schrieb albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl:
> I investigated the instruction set, and I found no way to detect
> if the 8 registers stack is full.
> This would offer the possibility to spill registers to memory only
> if it is needed.
> 

IIRC signaling and handling fp-stack overflow is not an easy task.
At most, the computer would crash.
IOW, spilling makes sense.