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#inline asm criticized

    16-Jan-90 00:02:45
Fm: Mike Spille/Manx 71545,1466
To: John Draper 76703,4322
#pragma's are ANSI approved ways to do things that aren't in the standard, like specify special function types, direct the code generator, etc. They're very nice, actually, in that they give an easy way to add machine-specific stuff at the source-code level. Alas, intstart() and intend() were not very well documented, and didn't even make it in some manuals at all. Because our doc was in such a sorry shape, we completely re-wrote and reformatted it all for the 5.0 release, and I think they came out pretty well.