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Stack Usage
Visual Studio 2015
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All memory beyond the current address of RSP is considered volatile: The OS, or a debugger, may overwrite this memory during a user debug session, or an interrupt handler. Thus, RSP must always be set before attempting to read or write values to a stack frame.
This section discusses the allocation of stack space for local variables and the alloca intrinsic.
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