ENTER and LEAVE in Assembly?

Question

I was reading The Art of Assembly Language (Randall Hyde, link to Amazon) and I tried out a console application in that book. It was a program that created a new co

Answer 1

Enter and leave just setup the stack frame. Usually compilers generate code that directly manipulates the stack frame pointers as enter and leave aren't exactly fast relative to mov/sub (they used to be though, back in the 286 days :-) ).