Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:17:19 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: upwards growing stacks ?? |
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On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> I've been porting the kernel to the ESA/390 architecture (mainframe) > and have had the occasion to rethink the subroutine linkage. In particular, > I have some weak reasons to want the stack to grow up, not down. However, > the unix tradition & linux in particular usually have the stack grow down. > So the questions: > > -- is it a bad idea to make the stack grow up? > -- has anyone done this before w/ linux? (doesn't seem like it ...) > > -- should I do this, or should I stick to the traditional design?
Over the years I've ran over a number of pieces of code that would need to be fixed because they assume that the sky is blue, Microsoft is good and stacks always grow down ;-) So these are some weak reasons having for downward growing stacks.
Ralf
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