As we had been using the stack storage concept since the late 1970's, with a suite of entry, exit, call and DSA macros, it was relatively easy to make all of our assembler programs LE-compliant for our 1998 release.  For most assembler programmers, however, the thought of LE seems akin to entering the den of the basilisk.
 
David de Jongh
 
On 06/27/13, John Gilmore<[email protected]> wrote:
 
CC has made my point better than I did.

For reasons that I have never really understood assembly-language
programmers almost always use heap storage for DSAs instead of the
stack storage they should use. (Their failure to use an extension of
such a stack-based DSA for scratch/automatic/local storage is a
little, but only a little, more excusable.)

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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