Max Kaehn 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...
Reminds me of the probably apocryphal WWII story about a new type of tank shell. Normal shells are always crated with the sharp-end up, but the new ones were unsafe stored that way. The boxes were marked "To avoid confusion, the bottom of these crates has been marked TOP." -- Cliff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
