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originally posted by santosh_pisa@Nov 23 2005, 07:28 AM
there is a mention about frame pointer. what exactly is a frame pointer what does it do and how diff is it from stack pointer. i read that it is same as stack pointer most of the time.
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The frame pointer is a register used to access automatic variables of the current function in the stack frame (it is the same as EBP on a i386).
It is also used by debuggers to try to understand the current function call nesting.
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Paolo
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