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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: I will kill or die for this tool
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.111203.12942@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 11:12:02 +1300
- References: <1992Dec21.043540.20183@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Dec21.043540.20183@hobbes.kzoo.edu>, k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
- >
- > Might some enterprising developer want to write a Macsbug dcmd that will
- > keep track of the state of a handle/resource? It would trap _HLock,
- > _HUnlock, _HPurge, _HNoPurge, _AddResource, _DetachResource,
- > _ReleaseResource, and _DisposHandle, oh yeah and _HSetState too. You
- > tell it to keep track of a certain handle, and to drop into Macsbug when
- > its state changes a certain way.
-
- How about a brute force approach: use the SS command on the block header?
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- The block header for 32-bit heaps is described on page 2-23 of the new "Inside
- Macintosh: Memory".
-
- Lawrence
- just got his NIM volumes today. :-)
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