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From: edp@jareth.enet.dec.com (Eric Postpischil (Always mount a scratch monkey.))
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Subject: Re: hp48sx: variable rename?
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Date: 2 Apr 91 15:58:41 GMT
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In article <1991Apr2.140223.7718@zip.eecs.umich.edu>,
kamidon@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Keith Amidon) writes:

>Wouldn't it be possible to do the purge before the store and thereby get
>rid of the twice memory requirement also?

Hey, it works.  Whadda ya know.  If you alter individual things in the
directory, what you see on the stack changes, but if you purge the
entire directory with PGDIR, the object on the stack remains a pointer
to the original directory.


				-- edp (Eric Postpischil)
				"Always mount a scratch monkey."
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