Foundations of Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing: Analyze Binary Code, Understand Stack Memory Usage, and Reconstruct C/C++ Code with Intel x64

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D. VostokovFoundations of Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9153-5_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.

A stack memory layouts illustrate method of inserting and deleting the values 1, 2, and 3 using push and pop instructions from and to the empty stack. ...