From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 29 2:53:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD3C114BE7 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:53:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA22911; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:23:47 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id TAA71637; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:23:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:23:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Amol Mohite , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: environment strings Message-ID: <19990629192347.O85121@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990629141057.I85121@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Brian F. Feldman on Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 05:49:04AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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