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- From: dwb@apple.com (David W. Berry)
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- Subject: Re: Does anyone recognize _Jackson?
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:24:07 GMT
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- In article <lbaaheINNmja@coltexo.cs.utexas.edu> Steve Anthony Mariotti,
- stevem@cs.utexas.edu writes:
- >I'm guessing that this is the same trap that TMON Pro referred to as
- >_JacksonPollock. I know that it's related to Color QuickDraw, but I
- >didn't bother reading through the code.
- _JacksonPollock is a vectored trap that was added for 32-bit QuickDraw.
-
- >
- >A similar question to yours: what the hell is _Bass? I was getting some
- >crashes when a program I was fixing thrashed thePort, and my stack crawl
- >led me through some code low in memory (very low, like $00001000 or so)
- that
- >called _Bass.
- Since Bass was the code name for the spline font project, I assume that
- _Bass is an internal trap implementing the spline fonts.
-