The Computer Journal 1985 28(3):257-263; doi:10.1093/comjnl/28.3.257
© 1985 by British Computer Society
The Computability of Stack Non-Underflow
D. T. Goodwin *
University of Keele, Newcastle, UK
In a number of previous articles a model of arithmetic behaviour at run-time was set up and studied. In the last of these, Goodwin3, sufficient conditions were presented under which an infinity of different program runs may use the stack without underflow. This paper shows these conditions to be necessary, so that it is computable at compile-time whether or not such an infinity exists.
* University of Keele, Newcastle, Staffs ST5 5BG

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