Video: C Programming on System 6 - Easier LDEFs With This One Weird Trick

posted on wednesday, october 14th, 2020 with tags mac, retrocomputing, and video
part of C Programming on System 6 series

I recently read about using a jump instruction as an LDEF resource to allow keeping the list definition function in the main program executable/project, so in this video I implement the technique for the message list.

Video notes:

MacTech - 6-byte Code Resource Stub Trick
- 2F3A 0004 4E75 0000 0000
The 4-char-as-long instead of a character array mentioned around 5:30 is apparently called a FourCC

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