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[-] notabot@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

I started reading that from the top and got increasingly angry on the way down. That creature is a monster.

[-] Gigamegs@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

What about stacks grows to higher addresses?

[-] SamboT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] Gigamegs@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] SamboT@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ah thank you so its just a convention.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Also remove null reference

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[-] kamen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 week ago

didn't know donny was a forth programmer

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