> o Addresses and data are stored on the same stack, making it possible to
> fool a program into thinking that data is an address. True for basically
> any modern architecture.
This could be avoided, with a performance cost. You would lose
a register -- not too bad on a RISC machine I think.
> o The stack growns downwards, making buffer overflows with strings
> relatively common. It's possible the other way, it's just less common.
> True for most architectures.
True for i386, but only convention on RISC. I've long thought it was
stupid to keep doing this.
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