I've been noodling on a Forth-inspired (but likely insane) syntactic sugar for stack manipulations in raw machine code. Behold:

{ 0 0 ->%ecx
...
}

This expands to:

push 0/imm32
push 0/imm32
copy %esp to %ecx
...
add 8 to %esp

Basically you get a (fairly unsafe) block scope containing an 8-byte local in %ecx.

To temporarily spill a register:

{ %ecx
...
}

Function call:

{ z y x
call f/disp32
}

The `}` turns into code to undo pushes in the `{` line.

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