Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!ukma!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Help: return to Finder with programmer's switch? Message-ID: <1990Nov16.144210.5782@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Nov 90 14:42:10 GMT References: <1990Nov15.174005.14697@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 14 In article <1990Nov15.174005.14697@Neon.Stanford.EDU> kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) writes: >With all the memory on the mac, and the System heap, and resources, why do you >want to write to 0? What if another programmer has the same idea? Read it again, Marc; he's talking about putting a9f4 at location 0 with the mini-debugger so he can recover from a crash, or similar things. He wondered if tromping on location 0 in this manner was OK. For all the reasons you mention, it is a BAD idea for programs to depend on location 0 being anything in particular. Therefore, it is probably safe to use 0 as scratch space *from the mini-debugger*. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner