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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Preloading ALL code segments...?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.094637.27361@kth.se>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 09:46:37 GMT
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- In <0105013E.m27dq5@camino.mic.cl> thomas@camino.mic.cl (Thomas Fruin) writes:
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- >Hey, what is HLockHi()? I can guess what it does, but I have never seen it
- >documented anywhere. Is it MPW glue or a real trap?
-
- It's glue taking advantage of the passing conventions for
- handle traps to optimize stack and register usage (i.e.
- don't have to adjust stack or reload registers between
- the traps)
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- And it's not only in MPW.
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- Cheers,
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- / h+
-
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- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- Engineering: "How will this work?" Science: "Why will this work?" Management:
- "When will this work?" Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?"
- -- Jesse N. Schell
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