strange record behavior in MCL2.0B1P2 (system 7) (again)

[cartier@math.uqam.ca (Guillaume Cartier)]

> You cannot simply pretend that something is a pointer and not a handle.
> You have to actually make it a pointer.  You get a pointer from a handle
> by dereferencing it.
> 
> If a bitmap is a handle, then you cannot say:
> 
> (rref b :bitmap.bounds :storage :pointer)
> 
> You must say
> 
> (with-dereferenced-handles ((b-pointer b))
>  (rref b :bitmap.bounds :storage :pointer))
> 
> Of course, if you do this and the handle is then relocated, you will
> lose.

But (make-bitmap 0 0 10 10) returns a pointer!!!

? (setq b (make-bitmap 0 0 10 10))
#<A Mac Zone Pointer Size 34 #x18D240>

Guillaume Cartier
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