Exploring the Execution Stack (Exploring the stack for fun and profit)

Authors

  • Noemi Rodriguez PUC-Rio
  • Ana Lúcia de Moura PUC-Rio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5753/ijcae.2015.4925

Abstract

The Basic Software course offered at PUC-Rio adopts the perspective of a software developer, emphasizing the support that the basic components of a typical architecture provide for the abstractions offered by programming languages. A central topic of the course is the stack, a mechanism whose mastery is essential for programming proficiency. This work discusses how the course explores this mechanism and its support for typical programming abstractions, such as local variables and procedures, and also for application-level multitasking.

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Published

2015-12-01

How to Cite

Rodriguez, N., & Moura, A. L. de. (2015). Exploring the Execution Stack (Exploring the stack for fun and profit). International Journal of Computer Architecture Education, 4(1), 13–16. https://doi.org/10.5753/ijcae.2015.4925

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015)

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