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Mastering Assembly Programming
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Mastering Assembly Programming

by Alexey Lyashko
September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
290 pages
6h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Stack

A stack is a LIFO (Last In First Out) arrangement of data. The simplest example would be the process/thread stack. Although such an implementation is rather array based, it fairly illustrates the mechanism.

However, most of the time, we would not know the size of the required stack in advance, maybe just a rough estimation. Not to mention the fact that we would hardly need to store only double or quad words; we'll mostly have more complex structures. The most common implementation of a stack would be a singly linked list addressed by a top pointer only. Ideally, only three operations are permitted on a stack:

  • push: This is used to add a new member to the list
  • top: This is used to view/read the last added member of the list
  • pop: This ...
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