[Info-vax] RMS and SSIO (again)

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Jan 11 13:54:29 EST 2022


On 1/11/2022 1:43 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> BTW, am I the only one who thinks it's a pity that stacks don't grow
> upwards towards higher addresses instead of downwards towards lower
> addresses, and with a guard page at the top of the space allocated to
> the stack ?
> 
> After all, when using virtual memory, the space allocated to the stack
> isn't actually allocated from memory until its needed.

I think:

K stack
E stack
S stack
U stack
unused
U heap

is more logical than:

stop
unused
U stack
S stack
E stack
K stack
unused
U heap

:-)

Arne






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