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From: gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Cookie Jar
Message-ID: <15403@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 18 Oct 90 04:30:56 GMT
Sender: gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <7204.27062454@uwovax.uwo.ca> 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca
(Eric Smith) writes:

>  ... (some text and source code)
>/*
> * A pointer to the cookie jar is found at 0x5a0. If there is no cookie jar
> * installed, this pointer will be 0. The cookie jar itself is an array
> * of cookies, with the last cookie having a "tag" of 0x00000000. (The value
> * of this cookie is the number of slots left in the cookie jar.)
> */

and in article <3142@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes:

> ... (original post and other cookie jar info)
>some program-specific info follows the ID). The ID part of the
>last cookie is always a zero longword, and its data part gives
>you the size of the current cookie jar in units of cookies (8 bytes).

So what is the value/data part of the last cookie "officially" supposed
to be, the number of cookie slots remaining or the size of the cookie
jar in cookies?

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