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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ah thank you so its just a convention.