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Another smart move (feddit.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about stacks grows to higher addresses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Im unfamiliar with this as well. If you are allocating memory for a stack, why does it matter which direction it populates data? Is this just a convention?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ah thank you so its just a convention.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Arrays not starting at 1 bother me. I think the entrenched 0-based index is more important than any major push to use 1 instead, but if I could go back in time and change it I would.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Also remove null reference

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Implying the orange fella has any say in programming language design and general tech conventions

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

didn't know donny was a forth programmer

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