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Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ?

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote:

> You gave me something to look at and which *could* help me further.  In 
> that regard you
didn't do so bad. So thanks. :-)

And I had some fun pulling your leg... your evidence indicates a problem 
parsing data types. In 1986 Aztec C65's native mode and cross-compiler for 
Apple II programs were released concurrently.

Both Pseudo code compilers supported floats and doubles, and the MS-DOS 
cross-compiler supported floats and doubles, but the programmer had forgot 
to add the two enumerated data types to their Apple II ProDOS native mode 
compiler, and it has remained that way every since...

Through that same period, Microsoft C released version 5.0 with a bugfix 
version 5.1 Summer of 87. MSC6 followed afew years later with several major 
bug fixes and was fully "Ansified". Sorta! Then Windows 3.1 came along and 
we slowly lost DOS.

But many early undocumented features and typos in manuals make this an 
interesting exercise. I recall one manual of BIOS calls that inadvertently 
provided sample code to reformat a drive rather than read one. They had 
duplicated the same call twice, and went to print without catching the 
error. And it was never spotted in subsequent printing.

Most guys never bothered much with Tasm. Most shops here used Masm. It was 
the hobby guys that bought Turbo C around here in those years, so perhaps 
the problem was never spotted until years later and fixed in later versions 
but not yours.

I am certain that your tenacity will resolve this.

Bill

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Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-08-30 17:02 +0200
  Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-08-30 10:39 -0500
    Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-08-31 00:05 +0200
      Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2013-08-30 17:56 -0500
        Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-08-31 10:43 +0200
  Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2013-08-31 18:34 +0700
    Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-08-31 15:21 +0200
      Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? JJ <duh@nah.meh> - 2013-08-31 22:13 +0700
        Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-08-31 18:21 +0200
          Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-09-01 10:38 +0200
          Re: Borlands Tasm5, procdesc using qword never works ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2013-09-03 12:37 +0200

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