Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax!7103_2622
From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Cookie Jar
Message-ID: <7482.271fb5cf@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 20 Oct 90 06:26:23 GMT
References: <15403@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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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.)
>> */
> 
Aargh! I can't believe I wrote this (but checking, I see a similar comment
in the MiNT source code, so I probably did). As with all comments in source
code, it should be ignored :-).

Claus was right; the value should be the *total* number of slots in the
cookie jar, not the number remaining. (Watch out under MiNT -- MiNT 0.6
gets this wrong, despite clear documentation to the contrary. I made the
mistake of believing my comment. Fortunately, MiNT allocates a completely
new cookie jar with extra room, and it should run after everything in the
AUTO folder, so this probably isn't a problem. It'll be fixed in 0.7).
--
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            ersmith@uwovax.uwo.ca
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