Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!ncrcan!ziebmef!cks
From: cks@ziebmef.uucp (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Too many devices?  Was: Proposal for device hackers: REXX:
Message-ID: <1988Dec23.032451.22419@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 23 Dec 88 08:24:49 GMT
References: <5954@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: cks@ziebmef.UUCP (Chris Siebenmann)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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In article <5954@louie.udel.EDU> iphwk%MTSUNIX1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:
...
>Solution: if you're going to use transcendentals, do a sqrt(2.) first,
>BEFORE you allocate any other resources, just in case.

 Or better yet, do an OpenLibrary() on the needed library when you
start up, before you do any math operations. This gives you a chance
to put up a requester with a nice error message, instead of just dying
with a message from the runtime library (which may get dumped to the
perhaps-nonexistant standard output). It may also save the user a disk
swap later on if your program needs the library only occasionally. 

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