stackframe
nounUK /ˈstæk.freɪm/
US /ˈstæk.freɪm/
A stackframe is a small box of memory that a computer makes to hold the information for one function while it runs.
When the program called the function, it created a new stackframe to store the local variables.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A data structure that holds the parameters, local variables, and return address for a single function call.
The debugger showed each stackframe in the call stack, from main down to the failing function.
3. A region of the runtime stack allocated when a function is invoked and released when it returns.
Deep recursion can overflow the stack because each call adds another stackframe.
4. In some virtual machines, a record describing the state of one method invocation.
The exception trace listed the stackframe where the error was thrown.