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- From: berend@contrast.wlink.nl (Berend de Boer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Overlays and device drivers
- Message-ID: <724065276.AA00689@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 09:08:10
- Sender: postmaster@contrast.wlink.nl
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- Duncan Murdoch wrote in a message to All:
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- DM> I assume that your device driver is being called from
- DM> outside your program. If so, it won't be part of the chain,
- DM> so it had better not do anything to trigger a swap: don't
- DM> call any code that's overlaid from within it.
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- Arghhh, is this really true? You're right about it that it calls code in
- overlaid units. Is there a workaround? Can this be considered a bug (if
- so I expect a bugfix in your buglist of course :-) )?
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- Greetings,
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- Berend. (-:
- fido: 2:281/527.23
- email: berend@contrast.wlink.nl
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