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Explicit Stack Management in C--

Russ Cox

The portable assembly language C-- currently assumes that program execution takes place on a one-way infinite stack. We propose modifications to the language to allow the front end to implement the stack-management policy of its choice. The modifications are complicated by C--'s tail call. We do not address the implementation of C--'s yield call, except to note that it cannot use the program's stack pointer.

This paper was a student project for CS 257 at Harvard University.

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