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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: THINK Pascal saving A4 for Objects in CODE resource
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Date: 28 Mar 90 22:43:02 GMT
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In article <1645.2610e886@vaxa.uwa.oz> a_dent@vaxa.uwa.oz writes:
>I am working on a Quickmail bridge which requires a CODE resource.
>The THINK documentation says you can't use globals in CODE resources but it
>would be LOTS easier to write if I could use Object Pascal.  Am I correct in
>assuming that Object Pascal can be used if you can save and restore A4?

	Right now, you can't write code resources in Object Pascal, because
you need a jump table to support the method dispatches, and no mechanism is
supported for the jump table at this time.

R.


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