From: terje.mathisen@nospicedham.tmsw.no   
      
   Let's make this a Happy New Year and try to avoid namecalling and abuse.   
      
   It is perfectly OK to disagree about stack setups/parameter passing and   
   local vars, but the way to solve this is by writing working code using   
   the various styles and then benchmark it: What is faster? What is easier   
   to write and maintain?   
      
   Personally I rather like passing a few parameters in registers,   
   particularly to leaf functions, but for recursion using the stack is   
   pretty much always at least as good.   
      
   As long as you are using a post-1986 CPU you can use stack-relative   
   adressing, in which case EBP is perfectly usable as a regular register,   
   you just need to do the housekeeping/math needed to figure out exactly   
   where everything is located at all times, while the stack grows ans shrinks.   
      
   Terje   
      
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