• SamboT@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    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?

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      7 minutes ago

      I asked 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.