A quick NULLFILL question

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From: Paul Close
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 21:00

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I was happy to see that the NULLFILL recently posted actually clears the BSS.
My question is, if the clearing routine is so fast, why not just clear
everything and make ALL programs happy?  After all, what's a few milliseconds
among friends?

I'm not familiar with the source code--could someone give me pointers on how
to clear the heap and stack, etc. like TOS does? (except using the fast
nullfill routine, of course.)

Thanks,
-- 
Paul Close	paul@cacilj.CTS.COM 	...!{uunet, ucsd, crash}!cacilj!paul

    The Obi-wan Kenobi method:  "Use the Source, Luke"	-Jim Fulton

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From: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: A quick NULLFILL question
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Date: 18 Jan 89 21:00:08 GMT
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