From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24555 invoked by alias); 24 Jun 2005 15:21:01 -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 24159 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jun 2005 15:20:35 -0000 Received: from host217-40-213-68.in-addr.btopenworld.com (HELO SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:20:35 +0000 Received: from mace ([192.168.1.25]) by SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:20:31 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'a rather unusual theological discovery'" Subject: RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:42:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00489.txt.bz2 ----Original Message---- >From: Igor Pechtchanski >Sent: 24 June 2005 16:11 > 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 ... oh no..... don't say..... do you really mean .... ? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhh! GARY R VAN SICKLE TURNS OUT TO BE GOD!!! STOP THE UNIVERSE, I WANT TO GET OUT! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....