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Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous?

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-09-07 Cached

The article discusses why stacks are made contiguous in memory instead of sparse, highlighting security risks such as Stack Clash and implementation complexities in exception handling.

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