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question on stack applications by an engg. student

Please tell me any hardware application of stack. as printer is hardware application of queue.

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CPU implementations make extensive use of stacks at a hardware level. But I guess that is not the sort of hardware you meant.

benPearce  2010-10-24 14:08:42
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What I can think of is CPU. It has a stack pointer (or several in most cases) to point to the top address of the stack, and the hardware will automatically increase (or decrease) the stack pointer as data is pushed or popped. Not sure whether it's what you want.

LLS  2010-10-24 14:13:51

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