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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] on the topic of viruses
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Date: Mon,  1 Oct 2001 12:40:50 +0200
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> It would have to grow *up*ward to prevent an overrun of a local
> variable from affecting the previous call frame.

yeah it took me a few reads of that to work out that stack grew *up*.

i was thinking, now how did the vax do it?  P1BR/P1LR trickery.