[hatari-devel] Wotanoid problem : final fix before commit ?
George Nakos
ggn at hol.gr
Sun Jan 24 13:04:03 CET 2010
Hello Eero,
Sunday, January 24, 2010, 1:42:02 PM, you wrote:
> Hi,
> On Sunday 24 January 2010, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
>> > George Nakos a écrit :
>> >>> I've looked at the compendium.
>> >>> I haven't found anything about this -1 length call.
>> >>
>> >> My memory is a bit hazy, but I think this just tells gemdos to read
>> >> $ffffffff bytes from the file. Of course gemdos will read as much as
>> >> the file size and then return an error in d0.l. It's the lazy man's
>> >> approach to doing things the Right Way(tm) (i.e. getting the file
>> >> length -or knowing it beforehand- and calling fread() with the proper
>> >> amount of bytes)
> George, have you actually used this on actual HW so that it has worked?
> With which TOS version(s) it works like that?
Yup, on a STE with TOS 1.62UK and STFM with TOS 1.02UK. Also, that's
we use that in ULSv3 for a couple of years now and it works in all our
test equipment (MSTEs, Falcons, a TT, etc)
--
Best regards,
George mailto:ggn at hol.gr
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