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From: robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Short Hello World
Message-ID: <1991May22.232415.20602@agora.rain.com>
Date: 22 May 91 23:24:15 GMT
Sender: robart@agora.rain.com (Robert Barton)
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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> Unfortunately, they are not as smart as you. They use:

> OldOpenLibrary:
>           moveq.l #0,d0 
>           jsr     OpenLibrary(a6)
>           rts

> 6 bytes more than necessary!

  Actually, it looks like they are smarter than both of you.  By using the
official function call method (jsr to an offset from a6) they are able to
handle the possibility that someone may have done a SetFunction() on the
OpenLibrary routine.  Having the OldOpenLibrary code just fall through to
the ROM OpenLibrary code wouldn't allow this.