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ch_123last Sunday at 8:54 PM1 replyview on HN

HP-UX on PA-RISC had an upward-growing stack. In practice, various exploits were developed which adapted to the changed direction of the stack.

One source from a few mins of searching: https://phrack.org/issues/58/11


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LukeShulast Sunday at 10:50 PM

Linux on PA-RISC also has an upward-growing stack (AFAIK, it's the only architecture Linux has ever had an upward-growing stack on; it's certainly the only currently-supported one).

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