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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: MMu on the IIgs
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.215441.5040@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:54:41 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>I don't know why COP rather than BRK.  COP does have subcodes, which
>makes it convenient for the debugger.

So does BRK, technically. However, as somebody said BRK is far more common
for real crashes and I suspect that Orca doesn't want to exclude GSBug if it 
is installed.

What pisses me off is that Orca's debug code requires the debugger to be
present -- a program compiled with it will crash if executed without the
debugger around. I tried writing an init to ignore COP's (but to flash the
border color as an indicator) but it still crashed -- does anybody know the
format of the debug code, i.e. so I can skip over it?

I rarely compile in the desktop environment anymore because it is too much
of a pain to set the Compile/Link options every time I start Prizm.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu