Reverse the direction of stack growth

PhDUCSB eng.hmohsen@gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 18:52:00 GMT 2009


Thanks for that tip. I tried doing that but the problem right now is that
both compilers( the original and mine) produce the same executable
regardless of any modifications I have done. I really have no clue. Please
help.


Ian Lance Taylor-3 wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 

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