Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW & Lisa Pascal Sources
Message-ID: <32084@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 May 89 18:37:24 GMT
References: <4036@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <4036@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> keith@uhccux.UUCP (Keith Kinoshita) writes:
>
>	I've run into a weird problem.  I've ported a Lisa Pascal
>program to MPW.  It compiles, links, and runs.  However, stuck in
>the program is a call to a nonexitant procedure called "FillChar."
>I've checked the pinterfaces and the source code yet no defination
>is made of this FillChar procedure.
>	Is FillChar an old Lisa Pascal call that got through the
>source codes of MPW Pascal and MPW Linker?  This is just so strange
>that I simply can't figure out any other reason.  BTW, a port to
>Think's Pascal produces a compiler error at FillCHar so I'm pretty
>sure it isn't my sources that is messed up.

You're to be commended on checking PInterfaces and your source for FillChar,
but slapped on the wrist for not checking the MPW documentation. FillChar is
a "Predefined Routine" that "fills a specified number of characters in a
PACKED ARRAY OF char with a specified character..."


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