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From: ggray@wpi.wpi.edu (Gary Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: assembly and floating point
Message-ID: <2311@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 17 May 89 02:43:42 GMT
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass.
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I have been putting togeter some macros to handle floating point routines in
assembly.  I have, up to now, tested them by going into basic and BRUNing them
(BTW, these are Prodos based) with no problem. But when I attempted to run the
same programs from Merlin Pro (i.e. there is no basic.system in memory) the
ROM floating point routines die.  Do I have to trick these routines into
believeing that a basic program is running?  Is there some intialization that
basic system does to get the floating point routines running?  The problem
only ocurs with floating point which, I believe, is very closely tied to
basic.  Any info on what I have to change would be appreciated.

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