Contiguous address spaces

[The Beach Bum]

In article <10130001 at hpisod1.HP.COM> renglish at hpisod1.HP.COM (Robert English) writes:
>The sh behavior which is (or was at one time) appalling was its
>implicit assumption that memory was contiguous and grew in a particular
>direction.

It was particularly disgusting if the .data and .bss segments started
after the stack segment and a brk(0) happened.  The return from the
supervisor would bus error and then core dump a UPAGE length core file.
Not very helpful in debugging ...

The Bourne shell is an excellent example of how NOT to write C programs.
More recent versions are slightly better.  S. R. Bourne's macros have
been removed [ so I've been told - Praise Ghod! ], but there are still
stupid computer tricks being pulled.
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