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Re: C-to-stack, and locals versus global stacks?

From Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: C-to-stack, and locals versus global stacks?
Date 2014-05-01 12:12 -0700
Organization Nightsong/Fort GNOX
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jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> writes:
> "However, to achieve this the virtual machine design has local
> variable support." - This in an incorrect fact.

As I remember, the code generated by that compiler (if it's the one I
remember) made extensive use of PICK or equivalent, to reach deeply into
the stack interior.  I figured that was what was meant by "locals".

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C-to-stack, and locals versus global stacks? jacko <jackokring@gmail.com> - 2014-05-01 10:46 -0700
  Re: C-to-stack, and locals versus global stacks? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-05-01 12:12 -0700
  Re: C-to-stack, and locals versus global stacks? Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-05-01 21:25 -0700

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