On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:18 +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Sorry, but why isn't that 4k at the *TOP* of the stack? It sure looks > that way to me, unless cygwin stacks grow upward!
You're mixing the metaphors. :-) The top of a stack is where you push something down onto the stack. The bottom of the stack is at the other end. There happens to be an implementation detail of stacks growing downward in memory, so the bottom of the stack is at the top of the memory allocated to the stack. I always found that puzzling, too... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
