Re: Compilers and efficiency

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 19:37

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In article <12740@pt.cs.cmu.edu> lindsay@gandalf.cs.cmu.edu (Donald
Lindsay) writes:

| Actually, the worst calling convention I ever dealt with had none of
| those problems. IBM 360 PL/I-F didn't *have* a debugger, smart
| linkers hadn't been invented, and the exception package was easily
| tacked on. The reason it was easy was because the machine code for a
| procedure prologue, contained (get this) a *call* to the runtime
| package...

If I remember correctly, the Unix V6 (Ritchie) compiler did this
too....
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Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

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