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From: jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu (Joseph N. Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Integer Size problem
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Date: 23 Aug 89 21:04:56 GMT
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In article <1465@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>Wrong. Incorrect. What happens if a interrupt happens between the set
>pointers and the block move instruction ? And this interrupt happens
>to shuffle memory ? LOCK THE HANDLES first ! ALWAYS !

Umm, pardon me, but it's a piss-poorly-behaved routine executed at interrupt
time that shuffles relocatable objects around.  I mean, we've discussed all
of the memory compaction surprises, and this should NOT be one of them.

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