Pushing too many params?

[Mark Jones]

Q: Is it necessarily bad if you push a few too many values to the stack? i.e.

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.code
    invoke GetHandle,STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE
    mov hConsole,eax

    push eax
    push ecx
    push MyVar
    push GeorgeW.Bush

    invoke ExitProcess,0


What happens to those values, does ExitProcess clean up all the stack space used or simply increment past it? Thanks.

[Maeser]

Well...if memory serves...the stack wouldn't be balanced. But since you're exiting I would assume it would be ignored

[zooba]

Presumably it loads the appropriate stack pointer from a fixed memory location (relative to FS probably) or changes context and simply frees all of the memory. If it doesn't crash on exit, it's probably all right.

[Tedd]

It seems you can mess up the stack all you want - pushing or popping (as long as you don't get an exception as a result of those actions.)
ExitProcess destroys 'your' stack and ignores.