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trønderen wrote:
In languages with a static link (I haven't been working with any more recent one than Pascal; most newer languages don't have a static link), code of an inner function may address locations in frames lower on the stack. However, they do not do this by negative offsets (or positive, if the stack is growing downwards) from their own frame pointer. Rather, they use the static link to find the stack frame of the outer function, and do relative addressing from that frame base address - as if it was a pointer to a struct. The addressing never goes outside that frame.

In the late 1970s, I had a project to optimise expression evaluation in Pascal (based on the Pascal PCode compiler). As you surmised, in the PCode compiler, accessing higher nested values from lower nested functions did skip down the stack frame back pointers (one skip per depth of nesting); but that is an implementation technique, it is not part of the language definition. I guessed that it could be improved by maintaining a vector of nested stack frame start locations to access stack specific offsets directly using this vector. This proved to be a useful optimisation for evaluating expressions. However, when I ran comparisons on a large Pascal program (my test large program was the original version of the PCode compiler) I discovered that whilst the overheads for evaluating expressions were reduced, the number of times that the test program actually accessed variables in higher scopes was so low that the overhead of maintaining the vector outweighed the advantages of having the vector.
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