On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 11:51 -0700, alexander lind wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 
> > Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> Therefore, depending on your structures and how much use of  
> >> pointers you use, the size will always be more, but should always  
> >> be *less* than half.
> >
> > Erm, that should read "*less* than double."
> >
> >
> > If you only ever user your stack to store pointers to malloc'ed  
> > memory the size of which is based on sizeof(<a pointer>), I guess it  
> > could be *exactly* double, but that's very, very unlikely. Hence why  
> > it "should always be *less* then _double_".
> 
> Yay, my initial simpleton assessment of this turns out to be correct :-)

No, not always. Envision a program that only uses long integers and
pointers ;) The correct phrase would be "should always be "*less than or
equal* to _double_".

Cheers,
Rob.
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