known as an execution stack, program stack, control stack, run-time stack, or machine stack, and is often shortened to simply the "stack". Although maintenance...

top of the stack, and is fixed at the other end, the bottom. A stack may be implemented as, for example, a singly linked list with a pointer to the top...

keep track of other stack(s). In 8086, the main stack register is called "stack pointer" (SP). The stack segment register (SS) is usually used to store...

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...

stack and frame pointers need to be managed (with fixed-size stack frames, the stack pointer is redundant due to multiplying the stack frame pointer by...

of the frame pointer is stored, which is used to restore the stack frame when the subroutine ends. Options include within the call stack, or in a specific...

reverse ; (some compilers may subtract the required space from the stack pointer, ; then write each argument directly, see below. ; The 'enter' instruction...

exist. The stack pointer is used to manage the run-time stack. Rarely, other data stacks are addressed by dedicated address registers (see stack machine)...

the stack pointer is a non-empty value, and the TOS cache register is always kept hot. Typical Java interpreters do not buffer the top-of-stack this...

word pointer first appeared in print as a stack pointer in a technical memorandum by the System Development Corporation. In computer science, a pointer is...

the TSS: Processor register state I/O port permissions Inner-level stack pointers Previous TSS link All this information should be stored at specific...

this group. The stack is a region of memory and an associated ‘stack pointer’, which points to the bottom of the stack. The stack pointer is decremented...

zone is a fixed-size area in a function's stack frame below (for a push-down stack) the current stack pointer that is reserved and safe to use. It is most...

original SP, now known as SPL for Stack Pointer Low, to produce a 16-bit pointer to the bottom of the stack. This allows the stack to grow much larger than the...

memory explicitly or by destroying the stack frame on return does not alter associated pointers. The pointer still points to the same location in memory...

architecture has a base pointer (also known as frame pointer) and a stack pointer: Pushes current base pointer onto the stack, so it can be restored later...

the stack buffer overflow problem because any overflow of a stack buffer that occurs within the same stack frame cannot overwrite the return pointer. However...

the stack. The stack segment traditionally adjoined the heap segment and they grew towards each other; when the stack pointer met the heap pointer, free...

random-access memory. It has an enhanced instruction set and a 16-bit stack pointer, as well as several new electrical signals for improved system hardware...

Identifier: Unique id (tid) is assigned to every new thread Stack pointer: Points to thread's stack in the process Program counter: Points to the current program...

attacker will find a pointer to the vulnerable stack buffer and compute the location of their shellcode relative to that pointer. The attacker will then...

either privileged or unprivileged. Whether the Main Stack Pointer (MSP) or Process Stack Pointer (PSP) is used can also be specified in CONTROL register...

be corrected by using an array instead of a character pointer, as this allocates memory on stack and initializes it to the value of the string literal:...

value at the top of the stack, and sets the instruction pointer to that value, and secondly, it increases the stack pointer value by four (equivalent...

supervisor mode can also save the user stack pointer A7, which would total 8 address registers. However, the dual stack pointer (A7 and supervisor-mode A7') design...

stack over Γ, bottom which is true for tree stacks whose stack pointer points to the bottom symbol, and equals(γ) which is true for some tree stack (t...

in the stack (A → C). The compare-and-swap succeeds in swapping `head` with `B`, and the result is that the stack now contains garbage (a pointer to the...

the kernel stack to retrieve information about the state of the new process. CPU state information including the registers, stack pointer, and program...

arrays) SP/ESP/RSP: Stack pointer for top address of the stack. BP/EBP/RBP: Stack base pointer for holding the address of the current stack frame. SI/ESI/RSI:...

patches for stack-smashing protection, known as ProPolice. It improved on the idea of StackGuard by placing buffers after local pointers and function...