Stack

The Stack is a buffer which remembers the state of subroutines that are currently executing.

On the 65c816, the stack is always in bank zero. It can be thousands of bytes deep.^[1]

These instructions push things to the stack:

• PHA
• PHB
• PHD
• PHK
• PHP
• PHX
• PHY

These instructions pull things from the stack:

• PLA
• PLB
• PLD
• PLP
• PLX
• PLY

See Also

• Stack Pointer

Reference

1. https://wilsonminesco.com/816myths
2. Clark, Bruce. http://www.6502.org/tutorials/65c816opcodes.html#5.1.1