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C Execution Stack

• Data structure that stores the information about the functions called during the execution of a program.
  • Local variables are stored on the stack, deleted when function ends

Fields

For each function the stack stores the following information:

• Parameters of the function
• local variables
• return values
• return address → when a function completes, it returns control to the function that called i.

Dynamically allocated memory are stored on the heap

• malloc vars don’t die

Data structure with two principal operations push(elem) adds element to collection pop() removes most recently added from the collection

• ex) A stack of blocks

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list from C Execution Stack AND !outgoing(C Execution Stack)

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Created:: 2021-09-27 16:17