Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!tektronix!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell From: jwhitnell@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Register saving conventions Message-ID: <8023@cup.portal.com> Date: 10 Aug 88 22:14:34 GMT References: <664@iraun1.ira.uka.de> <1133@lzsc.ATT.COM> <15055@santra.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 13 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3098 mike (carlton@ji.berkeley.edu ...!ucbvax!ji!carlton) writes... |(I know, tail patches are frowned upon, but they're useful sometimes). They are not just frowned upon, they may also break current or future system upgrades! Using tail patches is a good recipe for guraenteeing your code is not compatible with future system releases. Jerry -- Jerry Whitnell jwhitnell@cup.portal.com ..!sun!cup.portal.com!jwhitnell