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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)
Published 01/23/2008
Read a dissasembly view of function calls, explaining organization of the stack and the behavior in the context of different calling conventions.
Function Calls, Part 1 (the Basics)
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Begin a journey into the inner workings of how function calls work on x86 platforms,
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Read a quick review of the dangers surrounding static variables in multi-threaded and potentially multi-core/CPU environments.
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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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