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Return Address Stacks

Return Address Stack is a processor microarchitectural structure that stores predicted return addresses for function calls, differentiating itself from general-purpose branch prediction mechanisms by specifically managing the return address hierarchy to enable accurate and efficient control flow prediction during speculative execution.

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2017–2026

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Return Address Stack

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Jump-oriented programming

Tyler Bletsch, Xuxian Jiang, Vince Freeh et al. · 2011 · 538 citations

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Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Address and Digital Pseudonyms

David Chaum · 1981 · 163 citations

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A processor architecture defense against buffer overflow attacks

J.P. McGregor, David Karig, Z. Shi et al. · 2003 · 75 citations

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Improving Prediction for Procedure Returns with Return-Address-Stack Repair Mechanisms

1998 · 68 citations

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Using DISE to protect return addresses from attack

Marc L. Corliss, E. Christopher Lewis, Amir Roth · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 2005 · 44 citations

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Authors

93

  1. JE
    James E. Smith

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    2 publications · 65 citations

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  2. MM
    Margaret Martonosi

    Princeton University, United States

    1 publications · 35 citations

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  3. KL
    K.F. Li

    University of Victoria, Canada

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  4. ES
    Emmanuel Stapf

    Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  5. YN
    Yale N. Patt

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    1 publications · 38 citations

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Institutions

32

  1. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    450 citations

  2. Advanced Micro Devices (United States)

    Sunnyvale, United States

    2 h-index

    22 publications

    296 citations

  3. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

    Milwaukee, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    46 citations

  5. Université Grenoble Alpes

    Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    33 citations

  6. Intel (United States)

    Santa Clara, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    30 citations

  7. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    34 citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

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Venues

  1. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News

    2 publications · 68 citations

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  2. Communications of the ACM

    1 publications · 25 citations

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  3. Computer

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  4. Information and Computation

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  5. Journal of Systems Architecture

    JSA · 1 publications · 13 citations

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