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From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: LoadSeg() problems
Message-ID: <10711@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 9 Apr 90 14:00:48 GMT
References: <15113@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <10663@cbmvax.commodore.com> <15188@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <15204@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax (Michael Sinz - CATS)
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In article <15204@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
>In article <15188@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
>>In article <10663@cbmvax.commodore.com> thomas@cbmvax (Linda Thomas) writes:
>>>In article <15113@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> pfalstad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul John Falstad) writes:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm having trouble with the LoadSeg() function call.  Whenever I call it,
>>I seem to have fixed this problem by putting a WaitBlit() after the
>>LoadSeg().  I know it sounds utterly ridiculous, but it seems to work.
>
>I've somewhat figured it out.  When I run the code with the debugger,
>it doesn't work.  When I run it without the debugger, it works.  >:-(
>The debugger is Manx 5.0a db.

Ahh, you should have said that "db" was running.  The MANX db SetFunction()s
the LoadSeg() call so that it can patch the first instruction of the
newly loaded file in case it needs to stop it right after the LoadSeg()
This is how db catches the next loaded program.

>Just never mind.  If all else fails, I'll write my own version of LoadSeg().
>I had to write my own version of CreateProc() anyway (I'm working on an
>Amiga version of fork() ).
>
>pfalstad@phoenix.princeton.edu

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