This question may sound fairly elementary, but this is a debate I had with another developer I work with.
I was taking care to stack allocate things where I could, i
class Foo {
public:
Foo(int a) {
}
}
int func() {
int a1, a2;
std::cin >> a1;
std::cin >> a2;
Foo f1(a1);
__asm push a1;
__asm lea ecx, [this];
__asm call Foo::Foo(int);
Foo* f2 = new Foo(a2);
__asm push sizeof(Foo);
__asm call operator new;//there's a lot instruction here(depends on system)
__asm push a2;
__asm call Foo::Foo(int);
delete f2;
}
It would be like this in asm. When you're in func, the f1 and pointer f2 has been allocated on stack (automated storage). And by the way, Foo f1(a1) has no instruction effects on stack pointer (esp),It has been allocated, if func wants get the member f1, it's instruction is something like this: lea ecx [ebp+f1], call Foo::SomeFunc(). Another thing the stack allocate may make someone think the memory is something like FIFO, the FIFO just happened when you go into some function, if you are in the function and allocate something like int i = 0, there no push happened.