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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Unsupported Programming Practices
Message-ID: <581@boing.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 89 13:39:58 GMT
References: <8901060406.AA22607@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> <84277@sun.uucp> <5932@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <5932@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
>the blitter.  The correct technique is WaitBlit().  This assumes
>that Draw() (or the other graphics routines) do not return with more
>than one Blit pending (yes, a Draw can require multiple blits).
>Can this be guaranteed, Dale?

At this time there is atmost a single blit that the blitter can be
working on at a time. WaitBlit will make sure it is done before allowing
you to proceed.

If in the future there is a hardware/software architecture change then
WaitBlit will be changed to conform and again should be safe to use.

>
>-tom


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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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