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Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 04:09:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: Colour.
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <199405310649.IAA01182@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9405310438.A20956-0100000@undergrad>
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On Tue, 31 May 1994, Erlend Nagel wrote:
> Timothy Miller wrote:
>
> > A cookie would be ok, except that you'd then have to make library
> > routines for each of the commonly used compilers for accessing the
> > routines, etc. You'd have to be sure to make this really simple of
> > people won't use it.
>
> The thing is that one need only have an include file. Let the
> application get the cookie and the pointer in the cookie should point to
> a structure of functions. This way there is no need for any library
> routines, since all these calls are effectively added to the OS
> except that in this case you can remove this part of the OS when running
> in single tasking mode.
> BTW again this is about implementation, while we might first want to go
> into the issue of functionality.
>
> Erlend.
>
You have to have code somewhere to get the cookie and assign a pointer.
Where are you going to put that?