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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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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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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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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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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Function (computer programming) (redirect from Procedure call)
microcontrollers, have a single-instruction subroutine call that uses a dedicated hardware stack to store return addresses—such hardware supports only...
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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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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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Buffer overflow protection (redirect from Stack-Smashing Protector)
memory address on the program's call stack outside of the intended data structure, which is usually a fixed-length buffer. Stack buffer overflow bugs are caused...
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result, so a rich set of operations can be computed. In stack machine code (sometimes called p-code), instructions will frequently have only an opcode...
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Recursion (computer science) (redirect from Recursive call)
from within itself may cause the call stack to have a size equal to the sum of the input sizes of all involved calls. It follows that, for problems that...
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and code signing. In this technique, an attacker gains control of the call stack to hijack program control flow and then executes carefully chosen machine...
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Memory management (redirect from Stack and heap)
systems as well as Microsoft Windows implement a function called alloca for dynamically allocating stack memory in a way similar to the heap-based malloc. A...
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stored implicitly in the call stack. Depth-first search is easily implemented via a stack, including recursively (via the call stack), while breadth-first...
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islets typically of volcanic origin, are also loosely called "stacks" or "volcanic stacks". Stacks typically form in horizontally bedded sedimentary or...
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the call stack the registers other than the status register and program counter. Pop from the call stack the status register. Pop from the call stack the...
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to the system call in the appropriate processor registers (and maybe on the call stack as well), and also setting a unique system call number for the...
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Buffer overflow (redirect from Stack smash)
exploitation on the call stack. In general, heap exploitation depends on the heap manager used on the target system, while stack exploitation depends...
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registers or within a stack frame on the call stack. There are design choices for how the tasks of preparing for a function call and restoring the environment...
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PIC microcontrollers (section Stacks)
adding a number of important new features: call stack is 21 bits wide and much deeper (31 levels deep) the call stack may be read and written (TOSU:TOSH:TOSL...
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depending on the C call stack for its own stack. In practice, Stackless Python uses the C stack, but the stack is cleared between function calls. The most prominent...
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A stack overflow is a programming error when too much memory is used on the call stack. Stack overflow may also refer to: Stack buffer overflow, when...
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register. In a typical function call, the program performs a direct call, but returns to the caller function using the stack – an indirect backward-edge transfer...
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programming (ROP) technique: an attacker controlling the call stack, for example through a stack buffer overflow, is able to influence the control flow...
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X86 assembly language (section Stack instructions)
Segment, BP is Stack Frame Pointer) points to the address of the top of the stack frame, i.e. the base of the data area in the call stack for the currently...
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starting with a buffer overflow in which a subroutine return address on a call stack is replaced by an address of a subroutine that is already present in the...
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Parent pointer tree (redirect from Cactus stack)
nodes. When used to implement a set of stacks, the structure is called a spaghetti stack, cactus stack or saguaro stack (after the saguaro, a kind of cactus)...
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