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bug #19918: factorial doesn't dispose of the parameters pushed on the stack after it returns from the resursion

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Submitted:  Mon 21 May 2007 11:33:31 AM UTC
   
 
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Sun 21 Oct 2007 05:27:52 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Yes, it does.  Each inner stack frame is destroyed just before the `ret' instruction call as the recursion works its way back out from the base case.

Jonathon <jwdonal>
Mon 21 May 2007 11:33:31 AM UTC, original submission:  

I'm reading version 1.0 of the book. The factorial function in the "Recursive Functions" section of Chapter 4 calls itself to compute the factorial of the number minus one but once the call returns, the pushed value is not disposed of. It's in contrast with what _start does when it calls factorial and the book advice which states that "You should always clean up your stack parameters after a function call returns."

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