Read sprite info/size

[Jonathan Coxhead]

On 7 Jun 2002, at 9:51, Tony van der Hoff wrote:

> On 6 Jun 2002, in message <ee1389424b.philip at philipnet.com>,
> Philip Ludlam <philip at philipnet.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear All/Tony,
> > 
> > SWI Wimp_SpriteOp read sprite info (reason code 40) goes under the guise
> > of WimpSpriteOp_ReadSpriteSize in OSLib.
> > Is there a reason for Size rather than Info?
> > 
> I have no idea; this pre-dates my involvement in OSLib. As it's consistent
> with OSSpriteOp_ReadSpriteSize, it's unlikely to be just an oversight. 
> 
> I hope Jonathan is still monitoring these groups (if only to keep us on the
> straight and narrow ;-), and maybe he can give the reason.

   Yep, still here, just to provide these little snippets of history ...

   Most names of reason codes in OSLib come straight out of the ObjAsm header 
files that were part of the source code for the individual modules. I would 
start with the header, and add the entry and exit conditions, to get the SWI 
file in OSLib. Some of them were changed for documentation purposes at 
different times, and sometimes (as in this case) when providing similar 
functionality in a related module. I usually went for consistency within OSLib, 
rather than with other sources.

> I guess it's unlikely to get changed, whatever the reason, and I'm not
> sure that this justifies a new, synonymous call, but I'd be happy to add a
> comment to the help text.

   Sounds right to me!

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