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From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Return values of System Functions
Message-ID: <687@applix.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 14:48:44 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
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In article <8804030250.AA23769@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	Since an integer return value is in D0, the callee can treat it 
>either as a long or short.  Thus, even if the entire D0 register is used,
>if the actual range of the return value is within the limits of a short,
>you can declare the function as returning a short.

Except when it returns a USHORT.  Some Intuition functions do, or at
least I think they do.  I used to think all functions returned longs
until I got badly burned dealing with this in the recent past.

-scott