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- From: rawneiha@hercules.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Philipp Boerker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Memory Map Needed! / ExecBase
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 11:40:15 GMT
- Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
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- wulfraed@kd6mog.netcom.com (Dennis Lee Bieber) writes:
-
-
- > > Yes there is. A pointer to ExecBase could be passed to the task in a6 when the task
- > > is started.
- > >
- > And how did the code that starts /that/ task obtain the pointer to
- >ExecBase?
-
- It will have it from an fixed address of course, but this address could
- vary from computer to computer, from OS version to OS version. No user code
- should rely on fixed addresses or other hardware. Supervisor code has to.
- UNIX shows how to do it.
-
- Regards,
- Phil.
- grond/matrix
-