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Subject: Re: Minix and compiler models
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Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 14:15:34 EST
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In article <383@dayton.UUCP> joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson) writes:

>I always thought stacks grew up.  I think (and hope!) that you've got the

As someone here pointed out, "You must have spent your life standing
on your head" :-)

Stacks almost always (always?) grow down.  You put the text (executable)
at the bottom, data after that, and the stack starts at the top and grows
down.  This becomes more obvious  when you consider sharing memory
and growing stack & data segments.  See Knuth, Chapter 2.
-- 
Larry McVoy 	        mcvoy@rsch.wisc.edu, 
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