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Re: include file problems

To: entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Nicholas S Castellano)
Subject: Re: include file problems
From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 11:03:03 MET DST
Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT-Liste)
In-reply-to: <9311100426.AA18238@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>; from "Nicholas S Castellano" at Nov 9, 93 11:26 pm
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany Department of Mathematics

> 
> >> Only if Eric says that's legal (I don't think it is.)  Only if the
> >> changes come a few at a time instead of changing every file in one
> >> huge patch.  And only if we don't have to go out of our way to support
> >> ideosyncracies in Mag!x.
> >> 
> >
> >It should, because GEMDOS always has been documented to return -32
> >for unknown opcodes. And believe me -- I'm not going to change all
> >at once. Regardings the last point: if the library and Mag!x are done
> >correctly, there won't have to be any Mag!x specific code at all.
> 
> Are all MiNT traps now guaranteed to never be used by future versions
> of GEMDOS?  This is really what i'm concerned about.  I would hope
> that the traps became official when Atari bought MiNT, but I'd like
> direct confirmation of this before making widespread changes in the
> library. 
 
As Eric said: *if* a GEMDOS uses a MiNT opcode, it will have to do that
in a compatible way. 


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