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scott_s on March 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is “the stack”?

Left-to-right when I'm reasoning about general address spaces, but top-to-bottom when reasoning about the stack specifically.

vram22 on March 3, 2016 [–]

Good reasoning for common processors that grow the stack downwards. Those are what I've worked with. Mentioning it because I saw about some other types in this thread.

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