Re: AWeb on DraCo

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From: Neil O'Rourke
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 09:07

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In article <ehb.0576@draco.prima.ruhr.de>, ehb@draco.prima.ruhr.de (Edwin
H. Bielawski) wrote:

> >>May be, but the normal enforcer would never display such silly
> >>accesses like WORD READ from 00000004!
> >
> >Never tried that, but I suppose it wouldn't. Still, accessing 00000004
> >IS legal. And I still can't believe AWeb is doing that. While you are
> 
> Okay, a LONG read from 4 is legal. It's the pointer to execbase.
> But a WORD read from 4 must be a bug!

Bullshit, check any Commodore docs and example code, they _always_ have a
word read from location 4 to get execbase.

Neil O'Rourke
neilo@m140.aone.net.au

"Naturally, we maintain plausable denial" - Cancer Man, The X Files

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From: neilo@m140.aone.net.au (Neil O'Rourke)
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Subject: Re: AWeb on DraCo
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:07:30 +1000
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