Re: How function works internally

marydeepthy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I would like to know what happens internally when a c programme is
executed. LIke,
when we call a function, all the previous values will be pushed on to
stack and the local variables of that particular function will be
pushed in to the stack. when the function returns, all the local
variables will be poped out..

like this, what happens when we call a strcpy function. what happens in
stack??

i would like to know from where we can get this information. any
sites..

This stuff is often implementation and platform specific. For a very readable overview of some typical ways this is done, see van der Linden's "Deep C Secrets".
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