How is return address specified in stack?

Question

This is what I see by disassemble for the statement function(1,2,3);:

movl   $0x3,0x8(%esp)
movl   $0x2,0x4(%esp)
movl   $0x1,(%esp)
call   0x40         


        

Answer 1

It depends on the ABI and the architecture, but if the return address does end up on the stack it's a side-effect of the call instruction that puts it there.