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Local Referencing Environments

• If local variables are stack-dynamic:
  • Advantages:
    • Support for recursion
    • Storage for locals is shared among some subprograms
  • Disadvantages:
    • Allocation/deallocation time
    • Indirect addressing
    • Subprograms cannot be history sensitive

• Static locals are the opposite