RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----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?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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