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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hacking SANE Opcodes.
Keywords: SANE, XCMD, disassembly, hacking
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Date: 21 Oct 89 19:38:43 GMT
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By coincidence, I was just doing this yesterday. 
1.) Lightspeed C and THINK C both include a file "sane.h" in the library
folder that gives you most of the opcodes. There is a word or two about
this file in the printed documentation, but not enough to help.
2.) the phonebook edition of Inside Mac has a preliminary version of the
Apple Numerics Manual that includes most of the opcodes and a good
discussion of the theory of SANe.
3.) What I was actually trying to do was ascii to float and float to ascii
conversion. The C sprintf library takes 6800 or so bytes, and I needed the
space.  I had to dis-assemble Str2Dec and Dec2Str to figure out how they
worked, but I got it going, saving about 5000 bytes.  Time to buy a
numerics manual.

> The mac is a detour in the inevitable march of mediocre computers.
> drs@bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf)
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