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Another smart move (feddit.org)

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[–] SamboT 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Im unfamiliar with this as well. If you are allocating memory for a stack, why does it matter which direction it populates data? Is this just a convention?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I ask deepseek: Downward-growing stacks** are more common in many architectures (e.g., x86, ARM). This convention originated from early computer architectures and has been carried forward for consistency.

Funny, I can't remember, , because I did a lot of assembler back in my youth.

[–] SamboT 1 points 5 hours ago

Ah thank you so its just a convention.