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From: d85-jmh@nada.kth.se (Jan-Olof Hendig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Benchmark M2 - req.library - problems!
Message-ID: <1990Nov8.205044.9672@kth.se>
Date: 8 Nov 90 20:50:44 GMT
Reply-To: d85-jmh@nada.kth.se (Jan-Olof Hendig)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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I recently downloaded the file bm2req.lzh from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov.
The file contained req.library-bindings for Benchmark Modula2 for the
Amiga. Unfortunately it doesn't work, the programs I write compiles fine
but when I run them the machine crashes. The source level debugger shows
that the code generated is incorrect. The library base is not stored in
A6 before the call to the libraryroutine (the instruction loading A6 is
totally weird). Not even the parameters are passed correctly, the 
ColorRequesterroutine should have one parameter passed in D0 but it is
passed in A0 instead. Now, either I am deluding myself or else there is
something seriously wrong with the bm2req-package.
Comments anyone. I am using version 1.04 of the compiler if that makes any
difference.

Jan-Olof Hendig