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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Integer Size problem
Message-ID: <34335@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 Aug 89 00:25:43 GMT
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In article <4826@portia.Stanford.EDU> rick@Jessica.UUCP (Rick Wong) writes:
>Considering how scattered about this information is (volume 3, volume 5,
>and the X-Ref), and how subject it is to change, it seems that such a
>list would be a good subject for a tech-note.  Keith???
>
>Of course, it's probably safest to assume the worst, that ANY trap or
>procedure call can scramble the heap.

How about this:

	"Mac DTS doth hearby decree that ALL traps, including but not
	 limited to _SetRect and _Unimplemented, move memory!"

No, huh? I'll think about doing the technote, but please keep in mind that
spare decades are awfully scarce these days, and I think I'm going to need 
one...

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