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The tasks set out in figure 11.1 of chapter 11 include the preparation of argument information — for example the value of an argument expression, a pointer to an argument variable or a pointer to an argument vector — and the placing of this information in a location within the new procedure activation’s data frame. This chapter concentrates on this apparently insignificant aspect of run-time support in part because it is so often inefficiently implemented in practice and in part because compilers do not always perform all possible syntactic checks at compile-time.
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Bornat, R. (1979). Arguments and Parameters. In: Understanding and Writing Compilers. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16178-2_13
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