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From: page%rishathra@Sun.COM (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in Manx 3.6a c.lib
Summary: not really
Keywords: bug, compiler
Message-ID: <102473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 3 May 89 00:05:49 GMT
References: <494@tolsun.oulu.fi>
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Reply-To: page@sun.UUCP (Bob Page)
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nix@tolsun.UUCP (Tero Manninen) wrote:
>Have anybody found such a bug in Manx 3.6a that it leaves dos.library
>open when program compiled with cc have exited ?

Depending on your viewpoint, it's not a bug.  The only reason to close
dos.library is to decrement the open count .. closing it does not free
any resources.  The only reason to decrement the open count is to allow
the library to be purged from RAM when the count drops to zero and
you need the memory.

Well, dos.library is in ROM, so will never get purged.  Thus closing
DOSBase doesn't accomplish anything except maybe peace of mind.  But
it does add some extra bytes to your executable.

Maybe you should team up with Leo and write CloseResource().

..bob