+---------- On Feb 12, Jerry Asher said: > I would think that if I am really pushing a stack frame onto a stack, > then I presumably have to know where the base of the stack is and the > top of stack.
You don't need to know where the base of the stack is normally. If you did, you'd have to keep it somewhere. Where? There's no register dedicated to that purpose. You'd have to look in TLS, or a global table (sound familiar?), or walk up the stack (which is only possible if every function on your call stack has played by the rules, which ain't necessarily so under heavy optimization).
