3.3 Stack Frames

   

A stack frame is the run-time representation of a call to a function; the frame stores the state that a function needs to remember what it is doing. Frames have:

• Variables (see section 3.4), which are the values being operated on, and
• Arguments to the call (which are really just particularly interesting variables), and
• A current location (see section 3.5), which is the place in the program where the function was running when it stopped to call another function, or because of an interrupt or error.

 
• 3.3.1 Stack Motion
• 3.3.2 How Arguments are Printed
• 3.3.3 Function Names
• 3.3.4 Funny Frames
• 3.3.5 Debug Tail Recursion
• 3.3.6 Unknown Locations and Interrupts