"Strong" stack protection for GCC [LWN.net]

"Strong" stack protection for GCC

Posted Feb 7, 2014 18:19 UTC (Fri) by deater (subscriber, #11746)
In reply to: "Strong" stack protection for GCC by jzbiciak
Parent article: "Strong" stack protection for GCC

> On a machine whose stack grows up instead of down (Alpha was one such
> architecture),

I'm pretty sure the stack grows down on Alpha systems.

You might be thinking of HP PA-RISC where the stack grows up.

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