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From: ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: cexec oddness
Message-ID: <1329.26d56ecb@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 24 Aug 90 06:15:38 GMT
References: <1290.26d279cc@waikato.ac.nz> <250@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In <250@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
suggests, as a possible answer to my problem with the "cexec" operator:

"As a guess, you're going from an even number of bytes to an odd number
of bytes."

After doing a bit more testing, I'm inclined to agree with Glenn.
But the puzzle still remains: why is it looking at that stack object
*at all*?

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