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Subject: Re: what's different between sys 4.1 and 4.0?
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 01:24:10 EDT
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Actually, Megamax's sins are worse than simply using BasicGlob in the
library.  First, the compiler generates code which uses BasicGlob (apparently
A4 is saved there, and A4 is a register pointing to the globals.  When
the key word "Pascal" is used (for routines which are called from the ROMS),
A4 is restored by loading it back from BasicGlob.)
Second, there is this strange bug which causes some programs to crash on
exiting.  I am not certain why the programs crash when calling exit(); the
crashing is not consistant, and I can't reproduce it.  However, it is there,
and apparently there is a new update to the Megamax compiler which fixes these
and a few other bugs in the 3.0 release.
- William Woody                          Mac! > ][n && /|\
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