What About The Stack?
Explore how the stack segment behaves differently in virtual memory by growing towards lower addresses. Understand the hardware role in tracking segment growth direction and translating virtual addresses using negative offsets to physical addresses. This lesson clarifies segmentation and address translation for stack memory in operating systems.
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Thus far, we’ve left out one important component of the address space: the stack. The stack has been relocated to the physical address 28KB in the diagram above, but with one critical difference: it grows backwards (i.e., towards lower addresses). In physical memory, it “starts” at ...