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From: mike@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Wattsa Matta here?
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.065646.16121@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 7 Mar 91 06:56:46 GMT
Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix
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["It looks like the mother of all wars is the mother of all retreats"]

I am calling OpenWindow and it fails for whatever reason. On my 
A1000 running 1.3, I get a guru, on my A3000 OpenWindow returns a NULL
as it should.

I am trying to trap low-memory failures. That is, if there isn't enough
memory to support another window, theoretically OpenWIndow should just
return a NULL and be done with it. Instead I get an $81000001 GURU. 
(as a side note, I was trying to open a small 20x20 pixel window with
over >>100K<< of CHIP ram left, and it still go boom).

I get the same results if, while I have enough CHIP Ram, I try to open the
window so part of it falls off of the screen. A common OpenWindow failure
mode. Boom! The same thing...

On the 3000 under 1.3, OpenWindow behaves normally.

The 1000 has 2 1/2 meg, a Hurricane 020 board and C-Ltd SCSI adapter.

Could this be some funky hardware problem from hell?

So, what gives?
mike

 


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Mike Smithwick - ames!zorch!mike