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> Oh bugger.  So I have to cut a tape whenever I want to send someone a fix?
> With Patch I can fix things immediately over the phone.  I think it's a
> foolish decision to leave Patch out.  It's going to make my job a lot
> harder.

I doubt it. Given all the work that a RISC compiler does on your source
(even, I suspect, if the source is MACRO32), I think that trying to
implemement a nontrivial patch to the code that doesn't have unexpected
side-effects is probably a lot more work than recompiling!

The only exception I can think of is patching the DATA sections in the
image. But the current patch utility could do that, and I can't remember
when I last wanted to use PATCH on data sections anyway!

        Yours,
                Nigel Arnot

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