CHAPTER 25 — The Run-time Stack

This chapter discusses the run-time stack and the stack pointer register $sp.

Chapter Topics:

• Stacks
• The stack pointer register $sp
• Push and Pop stack operations.
• The MIPS runtime stack.
• Compiler use of stacks.
• String reversal example.

Note: for the example programs in this chapter, assume that the SPIM simulator has been set so that pseduoinstrictions are ON, delayed branches are OFF, and delayed loading is OFF.