title: What is activation record in the context of C and C++?
body: <p>What does it mean and how important to know about it for a C/C++ programmers?</p>
  
  <p>Is it the same across the platforms, at least conceptually?</p>
  
  <p>I understand it as a block of allocated memory used to store local variable by a function...</p>
  
  <p>I want to know more</p>