CHAPTER 27 — Stack-based Linkage Convention

The Simple Linkage Convention of the previous chapter lacked some features of high level languages. This chapter adds some of these features in a new Stack-based Linkage Convention.

Chapter Topics:

• Saving registers on the stack
• The Stack-based Linkage Convention
• The prolog and epilog of the called subroutine
• The call and return of the caller
• Nested subroutine calls and the chain of activation
• History of linkage conventions
• Example program: converting user input to upper case