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stack argument

An argument that does not fit in the argument registers and is passed in memory on the stack instead.

Arguments beyond the register allocation (the 7th integer argument on System V, the 5th on Microsoft x64, the 9th on AAPCS64 and RISC-V) are written by the caller to its outgoing argument area at the bottom of its frame, in order, at increasing addresses.

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