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Article #33745Malloc and new ROMs
From: Neil Forsyth
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1988 08:08
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1988 08:08
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I was wondering, is the Atari decision not to fix malloc in the new ROM cast in stone? If they are reading the net and noting down votes for and against fixing , is there still time for it to be fixed before release? My vote would be for fixing the bugs and releasing an 'Old malloc' program to keep the old sloppy programs happy (MALL100.PRG?). I was musing about the patch using the spare vectors, magic values etc to tell the OS at reset that malloc will be handled by such and such a routine. Maybe some folk would prefer TRAP interception? _____________________________________________________________________________ / "I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of \ ! being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with ! ! being sick and tired. I'm certainly not and I'm sick and tired of being ! ! told that I am!" - Monty Python ! ! ! ! Neil Forsyth JANET: neil@uk.ac.hw.cs ! ! Dept. of Computer Science ARPA: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk ! ! Heriot-Watt University UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!neil ! ! Edinburgh ! ! Scotland ! \_____________________________________________________________________________/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!neil From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Malloc and new ROMs Keywords: Yes were still taking about it Message-ID: <1941@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Date: 24 Aug 88 08:08:53 GMT Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 25