2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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unwind the stack
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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vi. 1. [techspeak] During the execution of a procedural language, one is
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said to unwind the stack from a called procedure up to a caller when one
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discards the stack frame and any number of frames above it, popping back up
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to the level of the given caller. In C this is done with longjmp / setjmp ,
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in LISP or C++ with throw/catch. See also smash the stack. 2. People can
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unwind the stack as well, by quickly dealing with a bunch of problems: Oh
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heck, let's do lunch. Just a second while I unwind my stack.
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