how does push and pop work in assembly
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)
stack-pointer
Print out value of stack pointer
One trick, which is not portable or really even guaranteed to work, is to simple print out the address of a local as a pointer. void print_stack_pointer() { void* p = NULL; printf(“%p”, (void*)&p); } This will essentially print out the address of p which is a good approximation of the current stack pointer