CS 112b
Spring 2001
Ileana Streinu

Memory allocation using stacks

• Use of stacks for temporary memory allocation of parameters and local variables of functions, during function calls.
• More applications of stacks: memory allocation part I.
• How compilers treat global and local variables and function parameters.
• How the call of a function is evaluated using a stack. How the value returned by a function is stored on top of the system stack.
• Preliminary recommended reading for the next topic (how recursion is implemented with stacks), after spring break: in the recommended textbook, Ch. 6.4, 8.6.2.