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|    Joe Monk to All    |
|    Re: PDOS/86    |
|    17 Jul 21 16:30:45    |
      From: joemonk64@gmail.com              > At the end of the day, the compiler needs to produce something.       > If it isn't machine code that manipulates registers,              The Burroughs machine architecture doesnt fit in the C hypothetical machine.       It doesnt have registers. It has a stack architecture.              All Burroughs compilers are one-pass, from source directly to executable       object. No link step required. No P-code. Burroughs was written as an ALGOL       computer.              It has unique features, like the fact that memory is not allocated until       referenced. So, if you have an array, memory is not allocated to the array       until usage. This is why calls such as malloc() wont work on Burroughs.              Joe              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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