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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Journaling Device Drivers
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.173559.667@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 27 Aug 90 17:35:59 GMT
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In article <9926@goofy.Apple.COM> nmday@apple.com (Neil) writes:
>In article <9109@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> rabanes@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu 
>(Greg Rabanes) writes:
>
>One possible source of error is that the toolbox expects a Pascal string.  
>your declaration should read :
>   char fname[255]  = "\pdezaley:user:journal4.dat";

Make that 'char fname[256] = ...'
MPW (2.02 at least) will not word-align character arrays following other
character arrays, so something like
char foo[255];
char bar[26];

can cause some real bizarre address errors if you ever try to do a word-length
access to bar.
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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