Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:23:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Amol Mohite <amol2@m-net.arbornet.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: environment strings Message-ID: <19990629192347.O85121@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906290547090.19237-100000@janus.syracuse.net>; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:49:04AM -0400 References: <19990629141057.I85121@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906290547090.19237-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Tuesday, 29 June 1999 at 5:49:04 -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 23:32:59 -0400, Amol Mohite wrote: >>> What I want to know is the exact position of these variables on the stack. >> >> As I said, at the top. >> >>> and if anywhere I can find some data, on the exact compisoition of >>> the stcak, then it will be very helpful. >>> >>> references of books and websites wil be most helpful. >> >> I think that, for FreeBSD, the source is the only place you'll find >> it. There's a brief description in "Porting UNIX Software" >> (http://www.ora.com/catalog/port/noframes.html), but that's not >> specific to FreeBSD. > > That's not true, Greg. I'm sure you of all people know that it (the > composition of address space) is described in "The Design and > Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," even if things > are slightly different in FreeBSD of today (especially addresses.) Well, no, it's true. I wrote "I think that...". Yes, you're correct, it's described on page 62 of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System,", but that has little bearing on what I thought at the time (though, of course, it has significant bearing on what I think now :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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