> I've been porting the kernel to the ESA/390 architecture (mainframe)
> and have had the occasion to rethink the subroutine linkage. In particular,
> I have some weak reasons to want the stack to grow up, not down. However,
> the unix tradition & linux in particular usually have the stack grow down.
> So the questions:
>
> -- is it a bad idea to make the stack grow up?
> -- has anyone done this before w/ linux? (doesn't seem like it ...)
>
> -- should I do this, or should I stick to the traditional design?
Over the years I've ran over a number of pieces of code that would need to
be fixed because they assume that the sky is blue, Microsoft is good
and stacks always grow down ;-) So these are some weak reasons having
for downward growing stacks.
Ralf
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