trap return result wierdness

[moore@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore)]

I'm new to MCL and somewhat new to Macintosh programming, so bear with me.

I was surprised by this result:
? (%stack-block ((response 4)) (#_gestalt #$gestaltEasyAccessAttr
 				          response))
59985

I was expecting a negative error number. Do I need to somehow coerce
the result of the trap into a negative word?

Also, is there higher level construct than %stack-block for allocating
a word or longword of storage?

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