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Re: Reverse the direction of stack growth
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: PhDUCSB <eng dot hmohsen at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:03:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: Reverse the direction of stack growth
- References: <25458975.post@talk.nabble.com>
PhDUCSB <eng.hmohsen@gmail.com> writes:
> I am trying to modify the gcc backend to reverse the stack growth direction.
> Do you think this is an easy task to do?
It kind of depends on the backend. It's easy to change what the
middle-end cares about--just undefine STACK_GROWS_DOWNWARD. You'll have
to make sure that the backend does all the right things in the function
prologue and epilogue code.
Ian