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In article <1364.AA1364@cuenews> andrew@cuenews.UUCP (Andrew Folkins) writes:
>According to the docs (Preface pg. xv), the limit on parameters to a
>#pragma call has been raised to 14, "allowing ALL Amiga library functions
>to be called with parameters in registers."  Except that when I used
>the #pragma for NewModifyProp(), lc2 gurus (tb reports foo.0000000b).
>Take out the pragma, and it compiles fine.  Has anyone else run into this?
>
>      NewModifyProp(gadget, window, NULL, epi->pi.Flags,
>                    0, epi->pi.VertPot, 0, epi->pi.VertBody, 1);

This is a bug in the 5.10 version of the compiler.  The compiler will crash
if fed an ODD CONSTANT to a #pragma routine taking more than 8 parameters.

You can get around it by changing the code to 

>      { int tmpint = 1;
>      NewModifyProp(gadget, window, NULL, epi->pi.Flags,
>                    0, epi->pi.VertPot, 0, epi->pi.VertBody, tmpint);
>      }

We apologize for the bug and will fix it in the next maintenance release.

(Please feel free to call SAS/C tech support at (919)677-8009 to report this
 kind of problem - that's what they are there for. )

 
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