[hatari-devel] Wotanoid problem : final fix before commit ?
Eero Tamminen
eerot at users.berlios.de
Sun Jan 24 19:46:27 CET 2010
Hi,
On Sunday 24 January 2010, George Nakos wrote:
> >> >> My memory is a bit hazy, but I think this just tells gemdos to
> >> >> read $ffffffff bytes from the file. Of course gemdos will read as
> >> >> much as the file size and then return an error in d0.l. It's the
> >> >> lazy man's approach to doing things the Right Way(tm) (i.e.
> >> >> getting the file length -or knowing it beforehand- and calling
> >> >> fread() with the proper amount of bytes)
> >
> > George, have you actually used this on actual HW so that it has worked?
> > With which TOS version(s) it works like that?
>
> Yup, on a STE with TOS 1.62UK and STFM with TOS 1.02UK. Also, that's
> we use that in ULSv3 for a couple of years now and it works in all our
> test equipment (MSTEs, Falcons, a TT, etc)
George, regarding Thomas' comments and you saying that your memory
on this is a bit hazy...
Could you verify that the value you've used is really "$ffffffff" and not
just the largest possible _signed_ value?
- Eero
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