unwind the stack

unwind the stack

During the execution of a procedural language, one is saidto "unwind the stack" from a called procedure up to a callerwhen one discards the stack frame and any number of framesabove it, popping back up to the level of the given caller.In C this is done with "longjmp"/"setjmp", in Lispwith "throw/catch". See also smash the stack.