On 03/16/2016 09:55 AM, Mouse wrote: > As for buffer overruns, the point there is that a buffer overrun > clobbers memory addressed higher than the buffer. If the stack grows > down, this can overwrite stack frames and/or callers' locals. If the > stack grows up, all it can overwrite is locals for the current frame > and unused stack space.
If the stack is in its own segment, you get to use the segment protection hardware to catch overruns.
