x64 Assembly and C++ Tutorial 26: Intro to the Stack

We will begin looking at the stack today. The stack can come across as somewhat confusing. It can seem that there is some arcane magic about. I think this happens when we introduce the stack along with stack frames. For this reason, I’ll not be looking at stack frames yet (besides, stack frames aren’t assembly, they’re a calling convention!). The stack segment is just a chunk of RAM, same as the data and code segments. The stack’s instructions are just MOV instructions that automatically increase or decreas