The Old New Thing

April 21, 2005 - The Old New Thing

Sweden's Worst Driver

April 21, 2005 Apr 21, 2005 04/21/05
Raymond Chen
Swedish Television announced a new reality-based television program called Sweden's Worst Driver (Sveriges värsta bilförare). I've done a bad job of translating some excerpts: TV4 has gathered seven of Sweden's worst drivers and subjects them to a series of tests and challenges. Those who complete each exercise the best get a prize...

The Itanium’s so-called stack

April 21, 2005 Apr 21, 2005 04/21/05
Raymond Chen
Last year I alluded to the fact that the Itanium processor has two stacks. The one that is traditionally thought of as "the stack" (and the one that the register refers to) is a manually managed block of memory from which a function can carve out space to use during its execution. For example, if you declare a local variable like then ...