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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Megamax C ( + a bug )
Message-ID: <1886@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Apr-86 21:48:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 18 21:48:58 1986
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In article <994@runx.OZ> baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) writes:
>
>1)	Has anybody taken a CODE resource from the mmlink and stripped it into
>	an INIT resource?

It would probably be better to start with a WDEF or MDEF resource, since
these won't try to use the jump table.

Remember that the code produced by the compiler expects A4 to be set up
so that it can find it's global variables.

>
>2)	Has Megamax released a HFS-compatible system for C?
>

I just talked to them today ( 4/18/86 ).  They are having some problems
getting Batch to work with HFS.  If one buys an update now, one will get
HFS versions of everything else, and a coupon for a free upgrade to use
when they get Batch to work.

And now for the bug...

Has anyone else had problems getting te{to,from}scrap to work?  Looking
at the code in the library, it looks like this has no chance whatsoever
of working.  For example, it seems to think the 0xAB0 is a pointer to
the length of the TEScrap, whereas it appears to me that the length
itself is in the word at 0xAB0.  This is what it looks like from TMON,
anyway, and when I write my own versions of te{to,from}scrap assuming
this is true, they work, whereas the Megamax versions bomb.

I asked Megamax about this, and they said that customers have called
and complained about this, but when they try it, eveything works!  I
will send them some sample code that fails when I send for the HFS
upgrade.
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