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- From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: include file problems
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 11:03:03 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9311100426.AA18238@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Nov 9, 93 11:26 pm
-
- >
- > >> Only if Eric says that's legal (I don't think it is.) Only if the
- > >> changes come a few at a time instead of changing every file in one
- > >> huge patch. And only if we don't have to go out of our way to support
- > >> ideosyncracies in Mag!x.
- > >>
- > >
- > >It should, because GEMDOS always has been documented to return -32
- > >for unknown opcodes. And believe me -- I'm not going to change all
- > >at once. Regardings the last point: if the library and Mag!x are done
- > >correctly, there won't have to be any Mag!x specific code at all.
- >
- > Are all MiNT traps now guaranteed to never be used by future versions
- > of GEMDOS? This is really what i'm concerned about. I would hope
- > that the traps became official when Atari bought MiNT, but I'd like
- > direct confirmation of this before making widespread changes in the
- > library.
-
- As Eric said: *if* a GEMDOS uses a MiNT opcode, it will have to do that
- in a compatible way.
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