On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 23:32:59 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote: >> On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 5:54:29 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> i hope this is the right list for this qs. >>> >>> I wanted t know where the environment strings i bsd were stored after a >>> program execs another one. >> >> At the top of memory. You can access them by the standard (but >> undocumented) method: >> >> int main (int argc, char *argv [], char *envp []) >> >> envp is a pointer to the environment strings. This is true for every >> version of UNIX I know. >> >>> Is there any place I ca get hold of the ABIs for freebsd ? >> >> Can you be more specific? > > I know about envp. > > What I want to know is the exact position of these variables on the stack.
As I said, at the top. > and if anywhere I can find some data, on the exact compisoition of > the stcak, then it will be very helpful. > > references of books and websites wil be most helpful. I think that, for FreeBSD, the source is the only place you'll find it. There's a brief description in "Porting UNIX Software" (http://www.ora.com/catalog/port/noframes.html), but that's not specific to FreeBSD. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
