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From: jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Benchmarks for 3000 vs 2500
Message-ID: <490@oregon.oacis.org>
Date: 9 May 90 18:03:01 GMT
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Organization: Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS), Beaverton, OR
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In article <18962@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>the source, I can't imagine why Lattice is pushing the name of the source
>on the stack except for debugging purposes. If it is the name of the source

The problem is that in some cases the program wants access to a copy of the
original line, to do its own parsing, whatever. Well, AmigaDOS strips the
command from the line and only passes the tail. So to provide this
compatability we had to reconstruct the command line, putting it on the 
stack. Since there is no dependancy on where this reconstructed line exists,
it would make sense to AllocMem a buffer for it. That would eliminate the
problem. For anyone so inclined, it should be a relatively simple hack to
the startup code (c.a).

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