Anitha Boyapati writes: > As far as I know, arguments are pushed onto the stack before entering > a subroutine. Hence ebp makes sense. From here onwards, I feel lame. > Summarizing : > > 1. Why should subl $8 and sub $12 from esp happen ? > > 2. After the call to constructor, why are 16 bytes being poped > off? According to me, only 4 bytes ( for another round of ebp > in constructor) should be popped off. > > I could be missing some basic details which are what I am after. > Any help appreciated. The stack is always 16-aligned. It's faster that way. Andrew.
