how does push and pop work in assembly

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The latter

POP EBP

is equivalent to

MOV EBP, [ESP]
ADD ESP, 4           ; but without modifying flags, like  LEA ESP, [ESP+4]

(in Intel syntax – target on the left, source on the right)

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