Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Zack Weinberg CC: Issaana, pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] doubtful code in compile_branch()
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Upward-growing stacks would help in the typical case but have their
> own headaches (not least that very few CPUs are set up to do it).
OK, thanks, so my question really is "why don't CPUs support upward
growing stacks?" :-)