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From: poleary@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Petey O'Leary)
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Subject: INIT's in LSC
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Date: 1 Apr 89 02:28:39 GMT
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I've been trying for some time to write an INIT in LightSpeed C that
will stay resident after startup (it patches a trap).  Writing an INIT
is easy enough in LSC, writing a memory resident (what else do you call
it?) INIT is also easy enough IF you use lots of inline assembler and
use only one monolithic routine.  But what I want to do is take a LSC
program (any LSC program, for that matter) and turn it into an INIT
without having to re-write it in assembler.

Inside Mac says that when INIT 31 calls an INIT file, it places a handle
to the INIT resource in A0 before the call.  So all I have to do is call
DetachResource on it and the INIT resource will stay in memory, then I
just make sure to setup A4 correctly and the thing should work.  Nope.
I think I have a pretty good grasp of what is going on and what needs
to be done but I guess I am overlooking something.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

--
Peter O'Leary.
"Speak of the Devil and the Devil may speak of you." - W. Hussey