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From: ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: LSP/THINK Code Resource question
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Date: 4 Jul 89 04:40:47 GMT
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I'm writing an MDEF with LSP/THINK Pascal.  Near the start of my MDEF I call a
sub-procedure in which I allocate a pointer with NewPtr (which I dispose of
before exiting the  MDEF).  While debugging (with TMON), I intercepted the
NewPtr call, but the NewPtr call  isn't in my sub-proc any longer, but rather
it's near the start of main the code. I think this section of main code is
called from my sub-proc and then jumps back there.  Any idea of what's going
on?  It's more difficult to debug when the assembly differs greatly from the
source (i.e, why is my NewPtr call not in the section of code (my sub-proc)
where it "should" be?).

This is basically (a very much simplified and edited version of) my setup:

procedure myMDEF(all the right params);

type
	myStuff:array[1..x] of whatever;
	myPtr:^myStuff
	
var
	mainMyPtr:MyPtr;
	

	function GiveMeMyPtr: MyPtr
	
	begin
		GiveMeMyPtr:=MyPtr(NewPtr(sizeof(myStuff)));
	end;
	
	
begin		{main}

	mainMyPtr:=GiveMeMyPtr;
	DisposPtr(pointer(mainMyPtr));
	
end;		{main}


 
Robert
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