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From: ksmith@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Karl J. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: The Continuing Adventures of Maxwell Smart (stack oddities)
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Date: 24 Apr 91 13:02:39 GMT
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In article <STEVEV.91Apr23233830@greylady.uoregon.edu> stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:
>The extra binary integer you sometimes see results when you
>interrupt SMART just after it has called TICKS.  Note that the
>value left on the stack is right in the range of TICKS for your
>current time.

Oops. You're right.

The other point I made - that the values returned by SMART alternate
between two distinct times - is still 'strange', I think. It's probably some
artifact of the grabage collector.

>--
>Steve VanDevender 	stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu
>"Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population.
>Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the
>classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."

-Karl Smith                    ksmith@jarthur.claremont.edu