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Why Are Stacks So Great? (Patterson)

Stacking of Subroutine Calls & Returns and Environments:

A:

CALL B

CALL C

C:

RET

RET

B:

A

A

B

A

B

C

A

B

A

Each procedure invocation makes use of the stack,

and during its lifetime ‘owns’ its part of the stack

(‘stack frame’).

(Me!)

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