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From: csrobe@CS.WM.EDU (Chip Roberson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MWC Rsconf() return value?
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Date: 3 Mar 89 17:23:51 GMT
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I've been working no the UUPC code and noticed that the original code
(compiled with a different compiler) has a return value for Rsconf().
I looked in the _Atari_ST_Internals_ and the c-code fragment shows
Rsconf() as "void".  BUT!, if you go to the assembler listing in the
back of the book you see that the asm code shows a long being returned
in D0.

I looked in <osbind.h> and Rsconf() is just a macro for xbios() which
does indeed return a long.  I changed the macro in <osbind.h> to be
of type "long" and it works -- i get the original values of the registers
as a return value.  If you have MWC you might want to modify your
<osbind.h> to do the same.

Now if I could get the two systems to complete a connection...
cheers,
-c
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