Why?  I love the stack.  It makes Assembly very elegant if used
properly.  And of course it's necessary for function calls unless you
use all of the registers.


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Herbert Graf wrote:
>>If you really want to know the power of AVR, it's the availability of
>>free C compilers, and the stack.  Instead of having a hardware based
>>stack, with a preset depth, you're limited only by your memory
>>availability.  These chips are extremely nice to program in.  ASM, or C.
>
>
>         While I agree on the C compiler front (the fact that there are very few
> free C compiler choices for the PIC is it's most major limitation in my
> mind), I disagree on the stack point. A stack is by no means necessary in a
> microcontroller, and in fact can influence odd design choices (of course no
> accessible stack can also result in odd design choices). I've personally
> never liked the idea of a stack, it just never settled in my psyche very
> well. TTYL
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