🚀 go-pugleaf

valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
> In article <9003160832.AA23378@jade.berkeley.edu> BEYSSAC@FRESE51.BITNET writes:
> >   There seems to be a bug in the KickStart 1.2 DoIO/SendIO routines.
> >On entry they clear the IO_FLAGS fields of the IoRequest structure.
...
> >   I discovered this using the trackdisk.device in raw mode with the
> >IOTDF_INDEXSYNC flag. It didn't work ! I wrote a little patch for DoIO
> >and SendIO, and now it works as it should. There is no problem with the
> >other parts of the system.
> 
> Indeed, this appears to be a bug, but not where you think it is! In this
> case, you are supposed to be calling BeginIO() directly rather than
> going indirectly thorugh SendIO() or DoIO(). To use BeginIO() you must
> link with amiga.lib.
> 
> So this is a documentation bug for the trackdisk.device. The documentation
> of the audio.device mentions explicitly that BeginIO() must be used. Thank
> you for pointing this bug out.

I recall someone asking this a long time ago, and the replies gave the
impression that: 1) it is a bug, 2) it will stay broken for compatibility's
sake (and thus the workaround "BeginIO").

No?  [This is important, of course, since we have the right to feel irritated
about it if really is a bug; I know I've never seen a good reason for it
being a "feature"]

-Miles