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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Pascal Inline Functions
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Date: 30 May 90 18:33:36 GMT
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Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA
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A few questions about generic inline functions in Pascal:

-Can they trash A0,A1/D0-D2?

-Is there any way I can access global variables (i. e. get their address)

    inline $a9e3,@myVar,$32f0;

 doesn't make it past the syntax analyzer.

-Failing the above, is there anyway I can link an external (i. e. MPW-written)
function as *inline* (so that I'm not generating inter-segment jumps when
I access the function in the middle of a tight loop)?

All of this relates to the 32K array limit problem. I just want to write a
little function, myArray(index:integer) which returns a ptr to an element
of my array.

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Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.




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