n first stores the value in memory and then
increments the stack pointer register. Further, on a machine where
the stack grows &quot;down&quot; from high memory to low,
interpretation of the address as the &quot;low memory&quot; address
requires a determination of the intended size of the stack.
IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001 has introduced the new interfaces
<A HREF="pthread_attr_setstack.html"><B>pthread_attr_setstack</B>(3)</A>
and <A HREF="pthread_attr_getstack.html"><B>pthread_attr_getstack</B>(3)</A>
