> Hmmm... Wasn't this discussed recently here, with the conclusion that
> having the stack grow up doesn't help much from buffer overruns?
>
> In order for a buffer overrun attack to work when the stack grows up,
> you just have to scribble into a buffer of one of the calling
> routines.
Even if it doesn't help against attacks, doesn't it make debugging perhaps a
little easier, if you don't write crud over the backtrace?
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