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From: P.PRIAPUS@HAMLET.STANFORD.EDU (Bill Lipa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: SysEnvirons inconsistency
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Date: 12 Feb 88 06:23:18 GMT
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There is an inconsistency in Inside Macintosh V regarding the definition of
SysEnvirons. In the text it says that SysEnvirons expects to be passed a
pointer to a record which it will fill out with environment information. In
the end-chapter summary it says that SysEnvirons expects the actual record.
This matters, you see, because if the record gets expanded later to contain
more information, I don't want my stack to be destroyed. Will future versions
of SysEnvirons be smart enough not to fill out a version 2 record if I only
request version 1? The LightSpeed Pascal interfaces believe the summary at the
end of the chapter.

Bill

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