Wednesday May 31 1995, Mike Bilow writes to hugo landsman:

 hl>> "Blain et al" and "Mastrianni" did get good
reviews in this
 hl>> echo.

 MB> calling the DevHelp API from C -- when IBM provides, at no additional
 MB> cost, their own DHCALLS.LIB as part of the DDK.

 MB> Mastrianni also decides to do things in ways directly opposite to the IBM
 MB> docs for no particular reason that I can understand.  For example,
 MB> Mastrianni says that DevHelp_VerifyAccess should be called before
 MB> DevHelp_Lock, while IBM says to call DevHelp_Lock before calling
 MB> DevHelp_VerifyAccess.  Using Mastrianni's method will cause a pointer
 MB> error in the application to pull Trap D, and will also run the risk of
 MB> verifying a selector that gets swapped out between the call to
 MB> DevHelp_VerifyAccess and the call to DevHelp_Lock.  The only reasonable
 MB> interpretation is that Mastrianni is clearly wrong, but he takes pains to
 MB> emphasize that he really does mean to contradict the IBM docs.

Is this Steve Mastrianni? I just came across an article by him in
Developer Connection News Vol 7. which is published by IBM, so I would have
thought IBM would have vetted him as a reliable source of info...

John

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