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Re: include file problems



> 
> >> Only if Eric says that's legal (I don't think it is.)  Only if the
> >> changes come a few at a time instead of changing every file in one
> >> huge patch.  And only if we don't have to go out of our way to support
> >> ideosyncracies in Mag!x.
> >> 
> >
> >It should, because GEMDOS always has been documented to return -32
> >for unknown opcodes. And believe me -- I'm not going to change all
> >at once. Regardings the last point: if the library and Mag!x are done
> >correctly, there won't have to be any Mag!x specific code at all.
> 
> Are all MiNT traps now guaranteed to never be used by future versions
> of GEMDOS?  This is really what i'm concerned about.  I would hope
> that the traps became official when Atari bought MiNT, but I'd like
> direct confirmation of this before making widespread changes in the
> library. 
 
As Eric said: *if* a GEMDOS uses a MiNT opcode, it will have to do that
in a compatible way. 


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