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From: c89andma@odalix.ida.liu.se (Andreas Magnusson)
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Subject: Re: Has AppleSoundChip? Gestalt? How?
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.182621.10184@ida.liu.se>
Date: 12 Apr 91 18:26:21 GMT
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smoke@well.sf.ca.us (Nicholas Jackiw) writes:

>In article <1991Apr9.011011.29542@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>>
>>LINK_ERROR - Gestalt not implemented {or some such}
>>
[ Stuff deleted \

>This glue pops the parameters off the stack and puts them into the
>appropriate registers before making the call.  It works under 7; I
>have no idea how _Gestalt's implemented under 6.x, but I imagine
>this'll work too.

It's implemented in System 6.0.4 and up.

>I love this stuff.  With the new edition manager, or any other OS package
>that requires initialization, you now have to write code that checks to
>see (TrapAvailable) whether you can check to see (Gestalt) whether you
>can check to see (InitEditionMgr) whether you can use editions.  Fortunately,
>the code to check to see whether your user has forgotten to turn the Mac's
>power on is much simpler.

Yes, it's lovely, no doubt about it!

>>
>>john calhoun


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