From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18755 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2005 14:28:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 18680 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2005 14:28:37 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:28:37 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5OESZW3018567 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:28:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:03:00 -0000 From: One Angry User X-X-Sender: pechtcha@slinky.cs.nyu.edu Reply-To: Blaaab Babble Boogle Bop To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: Re: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB In-Reply-To: <20050624020353.GA3132@efn.org> Message-ID: References: <1119553758.6224.32.camel@fulgurite> <20050623225317.556441702F7@samwise.efn.org> <20050624020353.GA3132@efn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00485.txt.bz2 On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:53:00PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > > > 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!: > [snip] > > Aaaaahhhh! It's the rapture! Quick, get the CR/LF thing solved before God > > comes! > > I prophesy a hippo falling up out of the sky on you. One hippo may not be enough... OAU