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Re:Stack-Oriented Programming by mzs on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @05:06PM (#22049730)
8087 had an 8 level stack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8087#Registers
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Re:Stack-Oriented Programming by enriquto on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:57AM (#22054123)
> 8087 had an 8 level stack

Why "had"? The x87 instructions are alive and well in modern intel processors. You can also generate code for them (for example, if you use "long double" in C) with all major compilers.

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