CHAPTER 28 — Frame-based Linkage Convention, Variables, and Recursion

This chapter builds further on the stack-based linkage convention to create a frame-based linkage convention. A stack frame is the section of the run-time stack that holds the data of a subroutine.

Chapter Topics:

• Stack frames and the frame pointer
• Local variables
• Simplified Frame-based Linkage Convention
• Compiler optimizations
• Recursion
• Storage classes: static, automatic, dynamic
• Entry points