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    Stack

    Function Calls, Part 4 (What Exactly Is "this"?)

    Learn about a dissasembly view of function calls, and decipher the __thiscall calling convention.

    Function Calls, Part 3 (Frame Pointer and Local Variables)

    Explore a dissasembly view of function calls, including organization of the stack for local variables and the concept of stack frames and frame pointers.

    Function Calls, Part 2 (Stack and Calling Conventions)

    Read a dissasembly view of function calls, explaining organization of the stack and the behavior in the context of different calling conventions.

    Playing with the Stack

    Learn about the stack and how to extract function calling information from the stack in a compiler-independent way.