Re: A86: Bug in ROM 1.2

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Subject: Re: A86: Bug in ROM 1.2
From: ajk22@juno.com (Andrew J Kalafut)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:39:38 EDT
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:05:48 EDT TGaArdvark@aol.com writes:
>
>I found a dangerous bug in ROM 1.2.  This may have already
>been discovered, please tell me if it was.  Pat@ti, you listening?
>I was installing some programs on my calculator this morning.
>I loaded a bunch of stuff on it, ran ASE, and then looked to
>see what it all was.  I found an uncompiled asm program so
>I left ASE and ran it from the OS (since you can't run it from
>ASE).  I got an error and had it goto.  Somehow, a bunch of
>basic commands had been added to somewhere in the middle
>oof the program.  This was all fine and dandy so I deleted the
>program.  When I restarted ASE, the opening screen for the
>program I just deleted appeared on the screen and then my
>calculator crashed.  
>
>What happened is simple.  ASE was loaded into asm_exec
>when I was looking at the programs.  Then I ran the damaged
>uncompiled asm program from the homescreen.  The OS
>began loading it into asm_exec until the error in the middle
>interrupted it.  When I reran ASE, the calculator checked
>and found that ASE was the last program run and assumed
>that it was still in asm_exec when actually half of the
>damaged program was.  Someone want to see if this bug is
>in 1.3 also?
>
I would be willing to check it on 1.3, but where am I going to get an
uncompiled asm program with an error in it like you are referring to?

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A86: Bug in ROM 1.2

From: TGaArdvark@aol.com