Message-Id: <200506232253.j5NMrJFq026133@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:53:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1119553758.6224.32.camel@fulgurite> X-IsSubscribed: yes > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com > [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] 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... > > Oh. My. God. This was prophesied almost two thousand years ago!: "But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first." - Matthew 19:30 Aaaaahhhh! It's the rapture! Quick, get the CR/LF thing solved before God comes! -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/