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stack frame

The block of stack memory one running function uses for its local variables, saved registers and the way back to its caller.

A stack frame (activation record) is the region of the stack owned by one function invocation, holding its locals, spilled values, saved registers, outgoing arguments and (on x86-64) the return address pushed by its caller.

See also

stack slot return address prologue epilogue
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