From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20170 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2005 15:11:07 -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 20157 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2005 15:11:03 -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 15:11:03 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j5OFB1W3021603 for ; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:11:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:21:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00488.txt.bz2 On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote: > ----Original Message---- > >From: One Angry User > >Sent: 24 June 2005 15:29 > > > 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 > > If it falls *up* out of the sky, doesn't that mean it's rapidly heading > for outer space? And where does that place Gary? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT