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rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) writes:


>!This may already be widely known, but here it is:
>!
>!I think, that I have found a bug in the AddSemaphore() routine in
>!exec.library.

>It is even documented!, with a workaround reading like this

Well, I don't have Includes & Autodocs 1.3, wish I had though!

>#include <exec/execbase.h>
>...
>AddSemaphore(s)
>struct SignalSemaphore *s
>{
>	InitSemaphore(s);
>	Forbid();
>	Enqueue(&SysBase->SemaphoreList,s);
>	Permit();
>}

Thanks, my workaround just doesn't add the semaphore to the list, that
works fine also, FindSemaphore() ,of course, won't find it then.

>[...]

>The (Lattice 5.05) #pragma for RemSemaphore was also incorrect. Apparently
>the stub in Amiga.lib is correct since things worked when I removed the
><proto/exec.h> include. It should read:

>	#pragma syscall RemSemaphore 25e 801 

>(I think it was 25e 901)

>Just encourage people to get the latest available docs. The RKM
>Includes&Autodocs for 1.3 has been available for quite a while now. 

Ok! :->

>-----------
>Robin Rosenberg

 - Peter (poe@daimi.dk)
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