?Assume that a RISC processor has register windows configured as shown in the fi

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?Assume that a RISC processor has register windows configured as shown in the figure below. Each set of local registers has 18 registers and each set of temporary/parameter registers has 8 registers. To what depth can procedures calls be made before having to save a window of registers – in other words, how many procedure calls can be present at one time? (the process in window A is at a depth of 1.)

A .temp = B.param Restore Save Bloc A loc B temp = C param A.param Saved window pointer w0 1 W C.loc w4 w3 C temp = D param (E)m Dloc Current window pointer Call Return

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?Assume that a RISC processor has register windows configured as shown in the fi

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