• stack, program stack, control stack, run-time stack, or machine stack, and is often shortened to simply "the stack". Although maintenance of the call...
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    stack, return the value of the last element added. The name stack is an analogy to a set of physical items stacked one atop another, such as a stack of...
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  • In software, a stack overflow occurs if the call stack pointer exceeds the stack bound. The call stack may consist of a limited amount of address space...
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  • to optimize in implementations. Tail calls can be implemented without adding a new stack frame to the call stack. Most of the frame of the current procedure...
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  • separate stack that "shadows" the program call stack. In the function prologue, a function stores its return address to both the call stack and the shadow...
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  • In software, a stack buffer overflow or stack buffer overrun occurs when a program writes to a memory address on the program's call stack outside of the...
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    explicit call to free() is required. } Automatic variable Static variable Call stack Dynamic memory allocation Stack buffer overflow Stack machine Stack overflow...
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  • A stack register is a computer central processor register whose purpose is to keep track of a call stack. On an accumulator-based architecture machine...
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  • Look up Stack or stack in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stack may refer to: Stack Island, an island game reserve in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia...
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  • In computing, a stack trace (also called stack backtrace or stack traceback) is a report of the active stack frames at a certain point in time during the...
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