[A89] Re: help understanding this code

[A89] Re: help understanding this code

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• Subject: [A89] Re: help understanding this code
• From: "R.A." <funkaster@mac.com>
• Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:39:42 -0400
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>  >The second line pushes 3840 (as a number)
>>to the stack, increasing sp by 4
>
>The stack grows downward, so it decreases sp by 4.
>
>>the last line pushes the current sp address
>>plus 8 bytes, that is, the address that was loaded in the first line.
>
>That is correct. Wonder why you got this one right if you thought the stack
>was growing upward.

mmm, a typo?... ^_^

>  >All this are passed as arguments to memcpy. So... Would this also
>  >work?
>
>No, since you don't reserve any memory on the stack. This means that the
>arguments to memcpy will be in the area which is to be copied to, and
>memcpy's internal stuff will also happen in this area.
>
>Sebastian Reichelt

ok, I got it. Thanks a lot,
ra.-

• [A89] Re: help understanding this code
• From: Sebastian Reichelt <SebastianR@gmx.de>

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