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From: bartonr@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Robert Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: ExecBase
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Date: 25 Jun 89 22:49:32 GMT
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Reply-To: bartonr@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Robert Barton)
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 dillon@HERMES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>  (I wrote:)
>:   Yes, but what if the library routines themselves access location 4 directly,
>: as many of them do?
>    Which ones?  Tis a bug 4-sure!  Some of my libraries did but I've
> since fixed the problem.

  Graphics is one that does, like when it wants to allocate or free some memory,
call an alert, etc.  Intuition doesn't have to because it keeps the pointer in
the IntuitionBase structure so it can fetch it from there.  I would think that
any library that didn't save ExecBase in its own LibBase would have to use
AbsExecBase instead.