Re: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

["Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz" <draco@obta.uw.edu.pl>]

Hi,

I generally agree but,

> d) by discussing new APIs before it's too late (for instance, a function
> that reads system variables and returns the value in d0 is A Very Bad Thing,
> because you can't detect EINVAL reliably).

I don't know where this superstition came from, but Ssystem(S_GETxxx)
functions NEVER RETURN ANY ERROR, so there's no "EINVAL" to be detected.
If one wants to be sure these functions are present, there's a defined way
to check it (please READ the doc).

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