Q: In MPW Shell 3.4a7, in a routine disposeGlobals called during Quit, a
disposePtr call is made on a locked handle. This sometimes causes crashes on
Quit.
A: This is fixed in MPW Shell 3.4b2. The crashes occurred because the memory for
the environment globals was allocated using NewHandleClear, then LockHHi'd, and then the handle was de-referenced and stored as the pointer to the block. At
termination time, this pointer was picked up by disposeGlobals and passed to DisposePtr. Since this particular address is already a de-referenced handle, it
can cause the crash you experienced.
In MPW Shell 3.4b2, the pointer to the environment globals is the argument to a
RecoverHandle call (to retrieve the real handle for the block of memory), which
is then passed to DisposeHandle.
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