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IDCMP

#: 28214 S7/ProgrammingForum unknown
    28-Jul-86 20:49:28
Sb: #28053-IDCMP
Fm: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
To: GARY SARFF 70167,2216

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The btst "bug" is a 68000 limitation – it only has a byte addressing mode for memory references. If testing against any specific bit, a compiler can figure out which of two bytes in a word or which of 4 bytes in a long should be tested and generate the appropriate byte ref.