Re: Memory management

[Gerhard Niklasch <nikl@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de>]

In response to
> Message-Id: <9804210920.AA00345@rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
> From: Michael Stoll <Michael_Stoll@math.uni-bonn.de>
> Date: 	Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:20:06 +0200
> 
> Coming back to my latest patch of gtrunc() -- I'm not sure about
> the following two points.
> 
> (1) Should the result of a function always be in a contiguous piece
>     of stack memory ?
> (2) Should the result always be left on top of the stack ?

Yes, and yes.  And for functions visible at the GP level, the stack
had better be gerepile'd, too.

Gerhard