Patent ID: 9430236
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for implementing code stack management, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: executing a software application by a processor of a computer; maintaining a data stack in a data stack memory area of a memory of the computer, the data stack comprising a plurality of stack frames comprising one or more data variables corresponding to the execution of the software application; maintaining a code stack in a code stack memory area of the memory of the computer, the code stack comprising a plurality of code stack entries comprising executable computer code corresponding to the execution of the software application, the code stack memory area being separate from the data stack memory area; entering a function of the software application; storing a current value of a code stack pointer (CSP) of the code stack in a memory location for the function on the data stack based on entering the function; allocating one or more entries on the code stack corresponding to a trampoline used in conjunction with a pointer to one or more nested functions of the function, wherein a most recently allocated code stack entry is referenced by the CSP; and before exiting the function, restoring the CSP by loading the stored CSP value from the memory location.