Font_ApplyFields

[Tony van der Hoff]

On 30 Oct 2001, in message <ce11abd14a.tom at compton.compton.nu>, Tom Hughes
<tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <328f8dd14a.Tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk>
>           Tony van der Hoff <tony at mk-net.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Bracey wrote:
> > 
> > > In all versions of FontManager up to and including 3.36,
> > > Font_ApplyFields corrupted R5-R7. The OSLib veneers don't know this, so
> > > font_apply_fields ends up not being APCS compliant.
> > 
> > The only way I can see of fixing this is produce a hand-crafted veneer
> > which saves and restores these registers around the SWI call, and pathch
> > it in to the library a similar fashion to OSReadVarValSize. Is there a
> > better way?
> 
> Just add R5?, R6?, R7? to the description and DefMod will assume they are
> corrupted and generate code to preserve them.
> 

Oops, of course! Thanks Tom. Now fixed.

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