Re: frame theory, was pointer madness

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-01-26T20:22:22Z

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:15:41PM -0600, NZG wrote:
> 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?;

Yes, that's how we generally use the terms in GDB.

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