From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 05/02/2026 15:09, Pancho wrote:   
   > On 2/5/26 14:14, The Natural Philosopher wrote:   
   >   
   >> The first is of course implementation specific. C can specify a data   
   >> stack separate from a program stack and avoid code corruption, leaving   
   >> only data corruption...   
   >>   
   >   
   > Can it?  Naively, I would have thought C was normally built on top of   
   > native assembler function calls, which dictates a shared stack.   
   > Obviously you could implement a function call independent of assembler,   
   > but does anyone, in practice?   
   >   
   You simply use  a register as a second stack [data] pointer.   
      
   Assign all your mem variables on that stack, and increment it at   
   function end.   
      
   The assembler is trivial. Making C do it that way would not be hard,   
   either..   
      
      
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