We are going to dive deeper into different areas of memory used by our programs. The stack is the place where all local variables and parameters live for each function. A function’s stack …

When a program is loaded into memory, it’s organized into three areas of memory, called segments: the text segment, the stack segment, and the heap segment. The text segment …

Overview: The Call Stack Starts at a high memory address local variables, function arguments

Eg, for efficiency, the top values of the stack may be stored in CPU registers, or in the CPU cache, or the return value could be stored in a register instead of on the stack.

Memory Allocator In rough terms, a memory allocator figures out how to layout data in the heap. This means:

Most microprocessors use a Full, Descending stack starting at the highest memory address. This section presents an example of push and pop operations for each of the four types of stack …

This diagram shows the overall memory layout in Linux on an x86-64 computer (e.g., the Myth computers). Every program, by default, has access to an 8MB stack segment in memory. Your …