Security
In a language with free pointers and/or non-checked array writes (such as C), the mixing of control flow data affecting the execution of code (return addresses, saved frame pointers) and simple program data (parameters, return values) in a call stack is a security risk, possibly exploitable through buffer overflows.
Read more about this topic: Call Stack
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