>> A static stack is (except for the ban on recursion/reentrancy)
>> completely invisible to the user. And it takes the same amount of RAM
>> as a real data stack.
> 
> Not quite.  A static stack has to allocate storage based on the worst case
> possible subroutine nesting.  A real stack uses storage according to the
> actual subroutine nesting that occurs at run time.

True, but would you allow an application to be build with less stack 
reserved than according to 'the worst case subroutine nesting'? Note 
that the worst case is calculated based on the call tree, so it is a 
worst case, but a realistic one (one that can happen in practice).

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