Stacks in Frame Pointers and Local Variables
Explore how stacks manage local variables, pass extra function parameters, and preserve register values in ARM64 assembly. Understand the role of frame pointers in stack reconstruction and debugging with practical examples using registers and memory addressing.
We'll cover the following...
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Stack usage
In addition to storing return addresses, a stack is used to pass additional parameters to functions (if we have more than 8 parameters) and store local variables. The stack is also used to save and restore values held in registers when we want to preserve them during some computation or across function calls. For example, suppose we want to call some function, but at the same time, we have valuable data in registers x0 and x1. The function code may overwrite x0 and x1 ...