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The idea is to leave the growing to the MMU. And a contiguous stack does not have to shrink immediately when its size goes down, whereas a segmented stack does (or at least it has to do something that causes it to set its stack pointer back to the initial smaller stack segment).



Still there is a problem with finite virtual address space (though not so significant on 64-bit architectures).




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