All of my machines (various open source derivatives on x86 and amd64) store argv above the stack (at a higher memory address). I am curious to learn if any systems store argv below the stack (at a lower memory address).
I am particularly interested in proprietary Unices, such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc, although any reports are welcome. Please don't neglect to mention your operating system and cpu architecture in your post.
If you are inclined to help, please compile and execute the following small program:
The "stack: " line is just an approximation to the top of the stack, but it's good enough for my purposes.
A typical result from a 32-bit x86 Linux system:
Thank you in advance,
Alister
I have a vague recollection of the address space layout shifting a few times with changes in CPU architectures. First there was the IBM 360 architecture, then the 16-bit address space PDP-11, then the 17-bit address space PDP-11, then the VAX, then the 3B20, 3B2, 3B5, M68K, SPARC, PA RISC, etc., and the segmented address space of the various x86 and similar processors. The people that did the ports to each new architecture decided at that time where code, text, heap, and stack would be placed for that architecture. For various reasons, they were not all in the same order. But, once an order was chosen for a particular processor type, ABI considerations tended to use the same layout for all systems based on that architecture. (Some companies (e.g., Intel) caused some unnecessary incompatibilities by not letting various contractors working on different OSes for the same architecture talk to each other and giving different answers to trivial questions like whether some numbers were presented in decimal or octal in tables that Intel created and then shared with the contractors.)
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