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Why do programs use call stacks, if nested function calls can be inlined?

Stacks allow us to elegantly bypass the limits imposed by the finite number of registers. Imagine having exactly 26 globals "registers a-z" (or even having only the 7 byte-sized registers of the 8080 …
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