Re: Processors who's stack grows up

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Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:17:27 GMT

"Wouter van Ooijen (www.voti.nl)" <wouter@voti.nl> wrote in message
news:41dd6283.156976680@news.xs4all.nl...
> >PIC and 8051 I think. Don't suppose you are interested in these those.
>
> PICs (at least the 12-bit and 14-bit cores) don't have a memory-mapped
> stack, so whether they grow up or down is invisible and hence
> irrelevant.
>

The Microchip PIC18 C compiler uses the POSTINC/POSTDEC registers to effect
a stack and frame.

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