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From: jprad@faatcrl.UUCP (Jack Radigan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JrComm 1.0
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Date: 20 Jul 90 04:49:11 GMT
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papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:

>Stomping on location 0 is a no-no for any application program. This is 
>usually the result of an uninitialized pointer.  I believe the hddisk
>device (or whatever it is called) for the A590 and A2091 assumed that
>nobody would stomp on location zero. I recall a message to that effect from
>CATS people a while back.

I'm aware of this already.  What is weird is that I can't duplicate it with
ZeroMung on an A1000.  A simple dereferenced pointer can be found with this
program, but not this semaphore guru.  It's truely bizzare.

  -jack-