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From: rokicki@rocky.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How much of the console.device do I need to close?
Message-ID: <329@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 12:52:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 12:52:25 1987
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Summary: Be careful with coercions

> the message port do a "while( (ULONG) GetMsg(port) ) ;".

If you are using Manx with 16-bit ints, and GetMsg has not been
declared to return any type, this will fail with a certain very
small probability---if the lower sixteen bits of the message
returned are zero.  I would estimate this probability at
approximately 1/4096, but it will vary widely.  So declare all
of those externals, folks!  An easy solution is to always
include "functions.h".

							-tom