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Article #6845Re: Icon port to Macintosh
From: lsr
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1986 18:10
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1986 18:10
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In article <827@ssc-vax.UUCP> keith@ssc-vax.UUCP (Keith Nemitz) writes:
>
>My problem is that Icon keeps track of it's own stacks with in the heap, and
>suprise of suprises, the stack sniffer on the mac keeps blowing me out of the
>water.
>
>My only hope is to turn off the blasted sniffer. Can someone help me?
> I can't imagine that Apple would allow a marginally useful thing like the
>stack sniffer to be undisableable (???)
You can turn off the "stack sniffer" by setting the low memory global
StkLowPt to 0. The VBL interrupt routine stores the "low-water" stack point
in this variable, and compares it to the end of the application heap.
Be sure to re-enable this by setting it to FFFFFFFF when your application
leaves.
--
Larry Rosenstein
Object Specialist
Apple Computer
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!apple!lsr From: lsr@apple.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Icon port to Macintosh Message-ID: <138@apple.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 14:10:13 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.138 Posted: Mon Aug 18 14:10:13 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Aug-86 05:02:17 EDT References: <827@ssc-vax.UUCP> Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Distribution: net Organization: Advanced Development Group, Apple Computer Lines: 26