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moosingin3space on May 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Abridged Cartoon Introduction To WebAssembly

> The addressable memory space doesn't include code, globals, stack, etc

Really? In that case, how does a language like Rust, where stack allocation is used regularly, compile to WASM?

krallja on May 16, 2017 [–]

GP is referring to the call stack. It is still possible to use the WASM heap as a stack, by maintaining a stack pointer and a base pointer.

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