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

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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
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