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Re:Eliminating the Call Stack to Save RAM [pdf] by repiret on Thursday July 30, 2015 @09:36AM (#9974841)
I think most architectures are like that.
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Re:Eliminating the Call Stack to Save RAM [pdf] by caf on Thursday July 30, 2015 @10:11PM (#9979552)
More modern architectures tend to be. Apart from Itanium, other examples of architectures that store the return address in a register are Alpha, PowerPC and ARM.

Architectures that store the return address directly on the stack include 6502, z80, m68k and x86.

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