[TUHS] pdp11 UNIX memory allocation

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-01-07 03:39, John Cowan wrote:
> Johnny Billquist scripsit:
>
>> The versions of Unix I am aware of push arguments on the stack.
>
> Yes.  It was typical for HLLs not to use JSR Rn instructions (which you
> need if you are going to pull arguments out of the instruction stream)
> but rather JSR PC instructions.

True. However, in this particular case, we were talking about system 
calls. But the versions of the code I was aware of were equally much 
pushing stuff on the stack for that case.

	Johnny

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