Wheeler Jump
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wheeler-jump-303-5390075
title:
Wheeler Jump
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The Wheeler Jump is a type of subroutine call methodology that was used on some early computers that lacked hardware support for saving the return address. The concept was developed by David Wheeler while working on the pioneering EDSAC machine in the 1950s. EDSAC had not been built with subroutines in mind, and lacked a suitable processor register or a hardware stack that might allow the return address to be easily stored. Wheeler's solution was a particular way to write the subroutine code. To
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Type of subroutine call
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_Jump
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2023-03-30T01:42:48Z
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