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From: dwl10@uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bug in Manx 3.6a c.lib
Keywords: bug, compiler
Message-ID: <20WENf7Apj10103JtEw@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 3 May 89 13:27:30 GMT
References: <494@tolsun.oulu.fi> <102473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: dwl10@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Dave Lowrey)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Houston TX
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In article <102473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> page@sun.UUCP (Bob Page) writes:
>
>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.
>
However, that is still VERY sloppy coding!

Are we to assume that dos.library will ALWAYS remain in ROM?

There were alot of people that assumed that there would only  be
512K of Chip RAM, and we are now seeing the results of their assumptions.

Another point...what happens when the opencount for the library overflows?

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