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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: useful trick, Quit problem
Message-ID: <38721@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 90 06:41:08 GMT
References: <900215073911.411852@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <900215073911.411852@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>As Emily said, never mind.  I forgot how long a hex character ws.  $80
>ain't the same thing as $8000.  Although its interesting that putting
>$80 in for the quit code gave that strange error -- I wonder what hidden
>powers lie untapped?

GQUIT was passing the flag value right along to UserShutDown, and the $0080
bit is -undefined- and reserved.  My guess (based on fuzzy memory of the
last time something similar came up) is GQUIT and/or UserShutDown were treating
your flag word as indicating that your program was -restartable from memory-,
and so chunks of your memory were being left around in important places,
like bank 0 (I bet you did your own QUIT call, denying the TML epilogue code
its chance to dispose of its stack space and the page it allocated to start
up SANE).
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