Activation trees and records

An activation tree is a tree structure that represents function calls made by a program during execution. When a function is called a new activation record is pushed to the stack and popped from the stack when the function returns.

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Language compilers that use procedures, methods, or functions as units of user-defined actions manage their run-time memory or at least part of it on the stack....