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Chapter 8 - Trap Manager / Trap Manager Reference

Routines / Detecting Unimplemented System Software Routines

Unimplemented

The Unimplemented procedure triggers a system error when called.

PROCEDURE Unimplemented;

DESCRIPTION

The address of the Unimplemented procedure is at system startup time placed into all entries of each trap dispatch table that do not contain an address of a system software routine. When called, the Unimplemented procedure triggers the system error 12, dsCoreErr, which crashes the currently running application.

WARNING

Your application should never use this procedure.

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