Foundations of ARM64 Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing: Analyze Code, Understand Stack Memory Usage, and Reconstruct Original C/C++ Code with ARM64

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D. VostokovFoundations of ARM64 Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9082-8_9

9. Memory and Stacks

Dmitry Vostokov¹  

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Dublin, Ireland

 

Stack: A Definition

A stack is a simple computational device with two operations, push and pop, that allows us to pile up data to remember it in LIFO (Last In First Out) manner and quickly retrieve the last piled data item as shown in Figure 9-1.

An illustration of stack operations has 2 sets of blocks numbered from 1 through 3 in increasing order for push operation and decreasing order ...