> On Nov 20, 2019, at 1:56 AM, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
> <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> It returns the address of the caller's frame pointer. See also
> https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/get_caller_frame.html
>
> It's mainly used in context of raising exceptions with the help of a second
> function. See here:
> https://freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refse112.html#x227-24900017.1
>
I guess I don't know what a frame pointer is. I thought it meant a pointer to
the current stack frame and so I was curious if the RTL could include a way to
copy the stack with the pointer and restore it later. Is that not how it works?
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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