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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AllocMem() with 16-bit Manx
Message-ID: <3878@well.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Sep-87 17:15:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3878
Posted: Wed Sep  2 17:15:19 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 07:43:46 EDT
References: <872@percival.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Summary: You too, huh?

In article <872@percival.UUCP> baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) writes:
>
>I have been working on a program that uses AllocMem(), and I can't get it
>to work with 16-bit Manx C.  [ ... ]
>SpriteHead = (struct VSprite *)AllocMem(sizeof(struct VSprite), MEMF_PUBLIC |
>         MEMF_CLEAR);
>BTW I already tried:
>void *AllocMem();

	Welcome to the Wonderful World of MANX C.

	Do this:

extern void	*AllocMem();
[ ... ]
	SpriteHead = AllocMem ((long) sizeof (struct VSprite),
				MEMF_PUBLIC | MEMF_CLEAR);

	You have to coerce that sizeof() reference to a long or you'll get
stack misalignment.  Tons 'o fun.

	MANX Programming Rule #1:  *ALL* Amiga-specific function call
arguments are 32 bits wide.  Make sure they are this size, or bad karma will
result.

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