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From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: I need a little assistance
Message-ID: <wbfqYWu00WB7ADbEYc@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 91 02:25:38 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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  I'm trying to do something REALLY simple here, but it just doesn't
work.  All I wanna do is allocate a little memory, and then start up
the sound tools.  Can someone tell me why this little bit of code
doesn't work?

/* global vars */

Word                    MyID;
Handle                  STHandle;

void startup()
{
  int err=0;

  MyID = MMStartUp();
  STHandle = NewHandle((LongWord)0x100, MyID, 0xC005, NULL);
  SoundStartUp(*STHandle);
}

  From what I can tell, it's allocating the handle just fine, but when
it de-references it to a pointer, and sends it to SoundStartUp, it
crashes big time.  Am I doing something fundamentally wrong here?

		-Greg .