Overview

When you call int x = 0; in your code, where and how is that x stored? This is the question that I wanted to know the answer of. And in this essay, we’ll look at just that. And

do you know how your code

int f(){
    return 42;
}

turns into

mov eax, 42
ret

and then into

B8 2A 00 00 00 C3