Learn to Program with Assembly: Foundational Learning for New Programmers

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J. BartlettLearn to Program with Assemblyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7437-8_26

The Starting State of the Stack

Jonathan Bartlett¹  

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Tulsa, OK, USA

 

The stack starts off with the following values already in place (from high memory to low):

• Null pointer

• Pointer to the nth environment variable (if present)

• Pointer to the second environment variable (if present)

• Pointer to the first environment variable (if present)

• Null pointer

• Pointer to the nth program argument (if present)

• Pointer to the second program argument (if present)

• Pointer to the first program argument (if present)

• Pointer to the program filename

• Command line argument count (including the command itself) ...