Chapter 7
Stack Operations
The stack is a one-dimensional data structure located in contiguous locations of memory that is used for the temporary storage of data. It is one of the segments in a segmented memory model and is called the stack segment, in which the base address of the stack is contained in the stack segment (SS) register. A stack can have a maximum size of four gigabytes. A general-purpose register (GPR) called the stack pointer (E)SP contains the address of the current top of stack. A stack is comparable to a stack of trays in a cafeteria in which each tray is stacked on top of the last tray; the tray on the top of the stack is the tray that is normally removed first.
Generally, only the word at the top of stack — pointed to by ...
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