Infocom on PDP-11

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Handy <kth at srv.net> writes:

 Kevin> I think that C really needs to have a stack to be useful:
 Kevin> recursive calls, pass by (alterable) value, multiple levels of
 Kevin> local variables, etc.  At least it is much easier to implement
 Kevin> if you have a stack.

 Kevin> Does there exist a good C compiler for any machine lacking a
 Kevin> stack?

There is no "machine lacking a stack".

There are plenty of machines that don't have a "hardware stack" or
stack-oriented instructions, or stack-oriented addressing modes.  The
Cyber, IBM S/360 and its successors, many (perhaps all) DSPs, etc. all
come to mind.

But on such machines, creating a stack is just a trivial programming
exercise, and C compilers of course do just that.  There's a GCC for
the S/390, just to name one example.

    paul