From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24505 invoked by alias); 26 Jan 2006 20:17:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 24497 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jan 2006 20:17:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.emacinc.com (HELO mail.emacinc.com) (208.248.202.76) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:17:00 +0000 Received: from emac77.emacinc.com ([208.248.202.77] helo=eng011.emacinc.com) by mail.emacinc.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1F2DXx-000796-Tu; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:16:47 -0600 From: NZG To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:17:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200601231438.26040.ngustavson@emacinc.com> <200601261354.12256.ngustavson@emacinc.com> <20060126195910.GA15398@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20060126195910.GA15398@nevyn.them.org> Cc: Jim Blandy , Daniel Jacobowitz MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601261415.41732.ngustavson@emacinc.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 208.248.202.77 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ngustavson@emacinc.com Subject: Re: frame theory, was pointer madness Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Relay: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-01/txt/msg00430.txt.bz2 On Thursday 26 January 2006 1:59 pm, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > It's important to use consistent terminology when talking about this. > What do you mean by "highest"? Largest integer number in the frames "level" element. > It's important to use consistent terminology I agree, but it's been somewhat difficult to unravel the terminology so far. There doesn't really seem to be any master document defining it. I'm an EE, so if this is standard CS jargon please forgive me. inner refers to ->next and outer refers to prev<- The farther in, the younger your function call. Is this right?; thx, NZG.