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| From: | TJLAJK TJALJ |
| Subject: | [Pgubook-readers] Chapter 5: Need help to understand programs' arguments [page 91] |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:47:10 -0700 (PDT) |
| Hi all, The last paragraph on page 91 says, '... When a LInux program begins, all pointers to command line arguments are stored on the stack ... and the arguments are stored from 16(%esp) on'. Does this mean that when we run a program like this: $./toupper toupper.s uppercase.s Linux automagically counts the parameters for us (in this case the parameters are 2) and stores them at 8(%esp), and the actual arguments (toupper.s and uppercase.s) are from 16(%esp) upwards. In short, Linux fills in a program's parameters for us and we do our own functions'. Thank you. |
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