On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 03:47:45PM +1000, Chris wrote: >The world doesn't revolve around the C language's assumptions, but it >could well be that Windows does care.
I already told you that Windows cares. There is no reason to speculate. >That's why I'm asking my question here. Not so that you can express >your general dissatisfaction with non-C programmers, but so that people >who might actually know can speak up. And, I spoke up. What you don't seem to be getting is that the people who are responding actually do know what they're talking about. What you are trying to do is a bad idea. If you want stronger indication of that fact, you might try posting your ideas to the gcc mailing list. Btw, have you thought about how to handle stack overflow? What happens when the program pushes its way to the top of your malloced region? cgf -- 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/