> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Max Kaehn > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:09 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB > > 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... > >
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