Determining the location of Top Of Stack

Question

I am trying to create an array based implementation of Stacks. I am a bit confused with where should the Top Of Stack (a variable in my implementation) be when,

• The list is empty
• The list is full
• The list is neither empty and not full Please help me out.

Thanks.

Answer 1

That depends only how you define TopOfStack: is it the first unused slot? Or is it the last thing pushed onto the stack.

As soon as you choose one of those two options the rest can be deduced easily.