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- From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.012048.8751@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 01:20:48 GMT
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- In <BztsAz.DEt@agora.rain.com> robart@agora.rain.com (Joe Bob) writes:
- > True, but that's not what he's talking about here. Absolute addresses
- >like AbsExecBase or custom.bltcon0 certainly don't get relocated.
-
- There seems to be a misunderstanding. Someone accused C= giving bad
- examples in the hardware reference manuals because of using absolute
- addresses. However, using AbsExecBase or custom.bltcon0 is perfectly
- legal.
- The examples are problematic for people that look at them as a detailed
- instruction how to write Amiga programs though.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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