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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Register saving conventions
Message-ID: <730056@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 88 23:20:39 GMT
References: <664@iraun1.ira.uka.de>
Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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>Excuse this basic question, but could someone explain to me what is
>meant by a tail patch on a trap.  

A tail patch is a patch that gets called *after* the normal trap is done.
The other kind of a patch is a "head patch"  ;-)   A head patch
gets called *before* the normal trap gets called.

-Ted