Psalm IOf the two ways
1Blessed is the student that walketh not in the counsel of the ungraded, nor standeth in the way of the unaligned, nor sitteth in the seat of them that guess.
2But his delight is in the manual of the machine, and in its instruction set doth he meditate day and night.
3And he shall be like a function planted by the rivers of memory, that returneth its value in due season; his frame pointer also shall not wither.
4The unprepared are not so, but are like the register that is clobbered, which the callee driveth away.
Psalm VIIIOf the push and of the pop
1What I push, I shall pop; and what I borrow of the stack, I shall give back before I go.
2Sixteen is the number of the alignment, and sixteen shall be the number thereof. Thou shalt not align unto twelve, neither unto twenty, for these are an abomination unto the hardware.
3Yea, though I walk through the valley of the segmentation fault, I will fear no core dump: for X29 is with me; thy frame record and thy return address, they comfort me.
4Thou preparest a frame before me in the presence of them that called me; thou anointest my prologue with STP, and my epilogue runneth over.
Psalm XIXThe oath of the callee
1X19 unto X28 are given me in trust, and not in possession.
2Whatsoever I find within them I shall restore unto them, that he which called me may come again and find his house as he left it.
3But X0 unto X15 are the wind, and the wind keepeth nothing.
4He that layeth up his treasure in a caller-saved register shall seek it after the branch-and-link, and it shall not be there, and no one shall be at fault but himself.
Psalm CXXVIIIA song of the leaf
1Happy is the leaf function, for it calleth upon none, and hath no need of the stack.
2It taketh its argument, it doeth the one thing, it returneth; and it is finished before the shadow hath moved upon the wall.
3But the branch-and-link is a solemn thing, and not to be entered into lightly.
4For he that maketh it must first set aside X30, lest he forget the road home, and wander in the heap for ever, and be found at last by no one but the debugger.
Selah.
Here endeth the Psalter of the Stack.Composed for the present edition by the Editors, in the manner of the received books. Not from the original record.