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jcelerier on Oct 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Should you learn C to “learn how the computer work...

> computer does not need to implement a stack and a heap and have copy-based functions and so on.

AFAIK intel cpus have a hardware stack pointer

steveklabnik on Oct 2, 2018 [–]

That's correct, but "does not need to implement" and "this kind of computer does implement" are not incompatible statements.

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