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Re: Variables allocated on stack

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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Dec 3, 12:33 am, Quentin Pope <qp19...@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, but this is extremely misleading. C can and does run on
>> implementations with no stack.
>>
> I had such an implementation. int was eight bits, double 24 bits, of
> which 7 were exponent. Recursion was not supported. There was no
> malloc. Essentially every variable had an invisible "static"
> qualifier. It wasn't conforming, but it was clearly C.

I'd say such an implementation is C-like, but it's not C.

I think what Quentin is referring to is implementations on which
activation records for function calls are not necessarily allocated
at monotonically increasing or decreasing addresses.

Any conforming C implementation must have something that behaves in
a stack-like manner.  It needn't be a contiguous region of memory.
And even if, as Quentin suggested, the implementation uses a fixed
length buffer for active function calls, it still has to behave in
a stack-like manner.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
    Will write code for food.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Variables allocated on stack Bogdan <cristeab@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 13:28 -0800
  Re: Variables allocated on stack Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-25 10:40 +1300
  Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-24 23:30 +0100
    Re: Variables allocated on stack Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-12-02 22:33 +0000
      Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-12-03 00:54 +0100
      Re: Variables allocated on stack Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-12-02 23:33 -0800
        Re: Variables allocated on stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-03 02:25 -0800
  Re: Variables allocated on stack jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2011-11-24 23:37 +0000
  Re: Variables allocated on stack Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2011-11-25 01:53 -0800
    Re: Variables allocated on stack "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-11-25 11:05 +0000
      Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-25 12:11 +0100
        Re: Variables allocated on stack "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-11-25 11:40 +0000
          Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-25 12:52 +0100
            Re: Variables allocated on stack Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-27 02:31 -0800
              Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-27 13:28 +0100
              Re: Variables allocated on stack André Gillibert <MetaEntropy.removeThis@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 13:44 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-27 15:44 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack André Gillibert <MetaEntropy.removeThis@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 17:34 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-27 18:28 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-28 07:48 +1300
                Re: Variables allocated on stack gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2011-11-29 01:11 -0800
                Re: Variables allocated on stack jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2011-11-29 17:02 +0100
          Re: Variables allocated on stack Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-26 07:21 +0000
            Re: Variables allocated on stack "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-11-26 11:07 +0000
              Re: Variables allocated on stack Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-26 21:16 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-11-26 23:00 +0000
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-27 12:12 +1300
                Re: Variables allocated on stack "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-11-26 23:35 +0000
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-27 12:48 +1300
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-27 10:56 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-28 16:17 -0800
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Markus Wichmann <nullplan@gmx.net> - 2011-11-30 17:04 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-30 09:36 -0800
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 05:11 -0800
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-25 12:23 -0800
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-31 19:11 -0800
                Re: Variables allocated on stack Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-11-27 13:06 +1300
                Re: Variables allocated on stack André Gillibert <MetaEntropy.removeThis@gmail.com> - 2011-11-27 11:20 +0100
                Re: Variables allocated on stack David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2012-01-19 02:43 -0500
              Re: Variables allocated on stack Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-28 08:32 +0000
    Re: Variables allocated on stack Bogdan <cristeab@gmail.com> - 2011-11-26 01:18 -0800
      Re: Variables allocated on stack Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-26 08:36 -0500
  Re: Variables allocated on stack Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-11-26 07:21 +0000
  Re: Variables allocated on stack Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-11-29 11:51 +0100

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