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Re: [f-cpu] Stack handling



Sorry for the typo - must be lifo of course.

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Juergen Goeritz wrote:
>Apropos call/return saving of return address. I am not
>really convinced that return address handling should
>be a matter of the code. As someone mentioned before
>this requires the need for defining which register
>contains what data already in a statically fixed manner.
>
>The return addresses are the most critical part. If you
>get wrong data you simply get wrong results but if your
>return address gets faked the program crashes (I know
>there are exceptions where it needs fake to circumvent
>some processor inconveniences - but not f-cpu so far).
>
>So why not use a simple fifo type structure onchip for
>separate return address handling?
>
>JG
>
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