Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
How about for all those recursively invoked routines that could also be
executed as a main task.  You could know when to stop unwinding when R14
pointed at the SVC.  (Ok.  No such program was ever written.  But it
coulda.)

Are you sure? I once wrote a very small program:

        SVC  12
        END

after somebody told me that an unprivileged program couldn't crash the system. Under SVS and later systems this has been fixed.....

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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