[Coco] Can anyone verify an error in the NitrOS9 tech manual?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 20 May 2017 08:50:13 Dave Philipsen wrote:

> Well, I am using assembler and I can tell you that when I use the 'Y'
> register to reference the LSB of the file pointer my program does not
> work but when I use the 'U' register it works correctly.
>
> Dave
>
Well, we have the source, so I would look at the F$Seek calls code. It 
may be that it uses Y internally in a way thats faster than stacking u, 
loading u, doing the call, and pulling u back off the stack. If thats 
not the case, maybe it could be fixed, but the time to fix it was in 
1982 as that would probably break a couple thousand apps we already 
have.  And THAT would definitely be a bad dog, no biscuit situation.

> On 5/20/2017 7:20 AM, Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
> > Dave, what you would have to do is check the nitros9 source for the
> > fseek function and see what is actually being used. I always use
> > seek in C so I haave no idea which regs it's using :-)


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