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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice C : pragma? Whats all this then?
Message-ID: <1397@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 27 Nov 90 18:36:55 GMT
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In article <27079.2750fd01@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I don't think so (I'll double check c.a to be sure), but, DOS gives
>DOSBase in a register to every process on startup (along with other
>things like the command line) and I am pretty sure Lattice/SAS startup
>just uses this.  Obviously SysBase is fetched from AbsExecBase.

Lattice Startup opens the dos.library itself. Regardless wether the
current AmigaDOS passes a pointer to the library (it does not) it
is not documented. The only thing a program can rely is that the
command line is passed via registers a0 and d0.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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