The Return of the Frame Pointers - HN

There’s more than one way to walk a stack. (see article)

Notes

The claim that hardware provided stack based CALL and RETURN instructions was not universally true. Many systems had no call/return stack, or supported only a single level of subroutine calls (essentially useless for a high level language but maybe useful for some hand written machine code). - HN

• Modern C/C++ on the Venerable 6502 - Most of ASM code on 6502 was more efficient by avoiding using a stack at all.

see also

• StackTrace ≅
• Under Linux, libSegFault and addr2line are underrated