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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: fill
Message-ID: <1163@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 88 21:32:37 GMT
References: <1988Jan6.165446.17129@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: pete@wlbr.UUCP (0000-Pete Lyall)
Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <1988Jan6.165446.17129@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> ac@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Acfield) writes:
>
>
>   I've noticed that if you use the FILL command (1B 4F) on a graphics
>window after selecting the small dots fill pattern (1B 2E CB 07) the
>fill operation will terminate with a #186 (stack overflow) error if there
>is any degree of complication to the area to be filled.  This problem does
>not appear to happen with the other patterns.  Has anyone else run into this?
>-- 

Yep - I understand that it's as a result of having too little a stack
(hardwired) available in the B09 graphics support subroutine (GFX?).
It needs to be patched, and Kevin Darling is working on that (among
other things).


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