The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur

Exercise 105

MARIE saves the return address for a subroutine in memory, at a location designated by the JnS instruction. In some architectures, this address is stored in a register, and in many it is stored on a stack. Which of these methods would best handle recursion? Explain your answer. (Hint: Recursion implies many subroutine calls.)