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From: gf0c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory S. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: ListManager/LSC->MPW troubles
Message-ID: <8XdRTFJ38k-046a0QN@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 88 02:54:09 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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It is probably foolish to post this message without the actual source
code in front of me, but...

I needed a dialog box with a scrolling list field for an MPW C program.
Due to some initial difficulty, I quickly decided that I needed a debugger
before things became too frustrating.  So, with few additional obstacles,
I did just this-  in LSC 3.0, using the list manager, all very spiffy.

And then I tried to port the whole business back to MPW.

I'll leave the image of twisted, screaming, flaming code, replete with
bus and address errors, to your own experience.  Well, my first
conclusion was that there was some discrepancy between the way
LSC and MPW C dealt with function parameters.  Regrettably,
my C skills are such that I required a source level debugger
in the first place, so I have not progressed beyond this
diagnosis.

Perhaps this topic has come up in the past;  if so, your collective
pardon for the redundancy.  Regardless, whatever illumination anyone
might shed upon the darkness of this ignorance would meet with gratitude
in proportion to my enlightenment.

-greg                    "If you have to hurry, it's already too late"
 fox