who called a C routine - get it from the stack frame

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <961 at cuuxb.UUCP> wbp at cuuxb.UUCP (Walt Pesch) writes:
>... A generic System V stack frame look like:

It is perhaps worth pointing out for people who aren't really into
language technology that there is no such thing as a "generic"
System V stack frame.  Such details are necessarily implementation-
specific.  The classic reference for this is Bell Labs CSTR No. 102,
"The C Language Calling Sequence" by S. C. Johnson and D. M. Ritchie.