stack growth direction

Question

So from my previous memmove question I would like to know how to find direction of stack growth.

  void stackDirection(int* i)
  {

     int j;

     if(&         


        

Answer 1

Experiments such as this are unreliable, because you can run into exceptions. The optimiser can mess you up, or the system might use registers for parameters. If you really must know the stack direction, read the manual for your processor.

Notwithstanding that, unless you are writing an operating system or something really low-level, if you need to know the stack direction you are probably doing something ugly and horrible and should really reconsider your methods.