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Read a dissasembly view of function calls, explaining organization of the stack and the behavior in the context of different calling conventions.
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Begin a journey into the inner workings of how function calls work on x86 platforms,
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Learn about an approach to creating thunks/trampolines to non-static member functions in 32-bit VC++.
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