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From: tblanch@lookout (Todd Blanchard)
Subject: Re: VisualWorks 2.0 on PowerMac
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Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 17:35:21 GMT
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Peter Cockerell (petec@best.com) wrote:
: tim@parcplace.com wrote:
: : Insulting my engineers is pretty cruddy behaviour, especially when it is
: : obvious that none of those who are pontificating have the faintest idea
: : what the problem is. It is not normally any business of netizens just
: : how we implementthe OE, but since some of you are getting obnoxious, I'll
: : make an exception in order to let some light in and ordure out.
: : With the 'Modern Memory Manager' turned OFF, we know of no problems with
: : runnig the 68k OE under emulation.
: : With the MMM ON, there is an API we call which is a perfectly proper API
: : to use but that seems to clash with MMM. Apple know about the problem and
: : appear to be quite puzzled by it. Since we are working on a native OE and have
: : a policy against even trying to support OS emulations, we are not overly
: : concerned by the situation.
: : SO now you can stop waffling about FPU emulation etc. It's nothing at all
: : to do with it.

Still sounds like smoke & mirrors.  It is well known that
incompatibilities with MMM is generally due to circumventing Apples API
and fiddling flags manually.  Since the flags got moved under the MMM,
this would break things.  Circumventing the API is a no no.  If you are,
in fact, not doing this but are having a problem with one of Apple's
calls, perhaps you'd like to share the problem with the rest of the
developer community so we may all benefit from it.

Also, since it is a 'perfectly proper' call, howcome you're special?

Todd Blanchard

