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dispatch tables generated now, layout improvements

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1987-03-31 07:54:43 +00:00
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@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ toward structured programs consisting of many small
procedures greatly reduces the value of registers to hold local variables
because the large number of procedure calls implies a large overhead in
saving and restoring the registers at every call.
.BP
.P
Although there are no general purpose registers, there are a
few internal registers with specific functions as follows:
@@ -89,10 +88,10 @@ few internal registers with specific functions as follows:
.N 1
.TS
tab(:);
l 1 l l.
l 1 l l l.
PC:\-:Program Counter:Pointer to next instruction
LB:\-:Local Base:Points to base of the local variables \
in the current procedure.
LB:\-:Local Base:Points to base of the local variables
:::in the current procedure.
SP:\-:Stack Pointer:Points to the highest occupied word on the stack.
HP:\-:Heap Pointer:Points to the top of the heap area.
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