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Do VMs use one stack for everything? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Stack-instructions machines [closed] (5 answers) Closed 9 years ago. Most VMs have a “call stack” to keep track of where to return from each function that was called. This is often simply regarded as “the stack”. However often a stack is needed for operations that aren’t related to function […]