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Re: [freenet-tech] Technology / Features


On 28 Feb 2002, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Huh. Why can't you walk the stack on Alphas? Don't they push the
> return address when when they execute a CALL?

Alpha uses a register calling convention.  Return address is saved in a
register.  So we know the immediate caller's address, but we don't know
how or where the caller may have saved its return address.

Jeff


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