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		SlowRobotAhead on Nov 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cooperative Threading Ha, good point. Doesn't stop them from using the term I've noticed.

near on Nov 14, 2019 [–]

> as modifying the CPU context registers and stack frame directly is not permitted by most sane programming languages

My point was, if C++ had a global variable named "stack_pointer" you could assign to, that would indeed be rather insane.

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