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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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)...

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...