depend on where the variables are stored on the stack, which I don’t think anyone could reasonably demand even in 1976
You'd be surprised. A typical compiler of that era would be single-pass, and allocating variables on the stack in order in which they were declared was not uncommon. Don't forget, we're talking about a language that actually had a "register" keyword solely to tell the compiler to enregister the variable!
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You'd be surprised. A typical compiler of that era would be single-pass, and allocating variables on the stack in order in which they were declared was not uncommon. Don't forget, we're talking about a language that actually had a "register" keyword solely to tell the compiler to enregister the variable!
Well, now that you mention it, that’s true, I was there. :) But I just want to go back to 1992, not 1976.