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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: software "exceptions"
Message-ID: <7527@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 03:58:34 GMT
References: <143@ckctpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <143@ckctpa.UUCP> crash@ckctpa.UUCP (Frank J. Edwards) writes:
>I've been trying to use the Amiga's signalling system to cause an
>"exception" (thats CBM's term, not Motorola's).  The idea is not
>to have to perform a Wait() for the CLOSEWINDOW gadget or to
>poll the tc_SigRecvd member of the Task Control Block...

	Oh yes, standard disclaimer: you can't assume that your program
isn't in a ROM routine with resources locked, so you can't safely change the
PC of the program (unless you're 101% certain it can't have anything locked).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"