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rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> writes:
> One of the issues in stack machines is dealing with more than a couple
> or three stack items.  I think a small offset into the stack will make
> this work a lot better.

The SPARC had a 24-register window, where each level of call got 8 local
registers and could also see the local sets of the two higher calls.  It
seemed like a good idea at the time.  I never dealt with it directly so
I don't know what nonobvious issues it had, if any.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC