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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga
Subject: Re:  Short Hello World
Summary: Location 0004 is a long word.
Message-ID: <1805@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 05:55:30 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.213936.22878@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May2.102554.8679@cs.umu.se> <1991May5.011748.11595@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <mykes.2178@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
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In article <mykes.2178@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
>Here's the right way, and NO HLL has any automatic anything over this.
>It is 12 bytes shorter than the best 'C' equivilent (so far) and is
>EXECBASE	equ	4
>		move.w	(EXECBASE).w,a6
>		jsr	_LVOOpenLibrary(a6)

That will never work.  You must use "move.l (EXECBASE).w,a6".  Otherwise
A6 will end up with 0x????07E0 instead of 0x07E007D8.  (Execbase is in
high memory on an A3000.)
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