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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Register VM WIP
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 09:10:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k40ck3dj.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+U71=Psa=j5goZDCXE0cORu8Ly7ApbQH94XCkjNMM3aTrZA0A@mail.gmail.com> (Noah Lavine's message of "Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:02 -0400")

On Wed 16 May 2012 02:39, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:

> Do you mean that the register pool will grow and shrink for each
> function call? Is that why the stack frames can be fixed-size?

The register pool is the set of locals on the stack.  Registers for one
function are stored in the stack frame.

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-16  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-11 16:19 Register VM WIP Andy Wingo
2012-05-11 20:29 ` Stefan Israelsson Tampe
2012-05-16 15:01   ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-14 21:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-05-14 21:28   ` Andrew Gwozdziewycz
2012-05-15 18:45     ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16  0:39       ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-16  4:23         ` Mark H Weaver
2012-05-16  7:15           ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 13:44             ` Mark H Weaver
2012-05-16 14:00               ` David Kastrup
2012-05-16 14:54               ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-16 15:05                 ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 20:39                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-05-16 14:58               ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 16:27                 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-05-16 16:39                   ` Andy Wingo
2012-05-16 18:23                     ` Noah Lavine
2012-05-16  7:10         ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2012-05-15 18:49   ` Andy Wingo

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