tty large,
and they could probably be shrunk quite a bit, especially for
non-variadic procedures.  It might be possible to arrange the stack
frame so that a simple <tt>leave; ret $12</tt> sequence, or something
similarly simple, could replace the current eleven bytes of crap, at
least for non-variadic procedures. Tail calls are particularly
horrific; here's a three-argument tail call:
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 804977f:	50                   	push   %eax
 8049780:	a1 20 89 06 08       	mov    0x8068920,%eax
 8049785