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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Spice on A3000
Message-ID: <20993@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Apr 91 05:50:41 GMT
References: <1991Apr20.224647.20242@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
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In article <1991Apr20.224647.20242@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> rrmorris@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Rodney Raym Morrison) writes:
>
>I believe I havethe latest version of Spice for the amiga, but it always
>crashes on my 3000. It worked fine for my 2000. One of the reasons I got
>a 3000 was forthe extra speed for things like Spice.
>  Does anyone know of a version that works on the A3000?
>  Or will there be a release for the faster processors?

	Common causes of things like this are a) using the high byte of the
address for flags (big no-no, GNU emacs does this), b) writing 81 bytes
including null into an 80 byte string (with <16M address space, the 0 usually
overwrites a 0-byte in a pointer.  'Less' had this problem, overwriting a
return address on A3000's.)

	There are others, but those are the biggies for non-game software.
Tools like 'enforcer' are good at catching these problems (though munged
pointers require some expertise to track down).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
Thus spake the Master Ninjei: "To program a million-line operating system
is easy, to change a man's temperament is more difficult."
(From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)