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- From: rawneiha@w351zrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Philipp Boerker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga Memory Map Needed! / ExecBase
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 11:54:24 GMT
- Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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- >>>ExecBase being absolute: It has to be!
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- >>No.
- >>[...]
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- >>>There is NO way to run a program that accesses any OS function without
- >>>relying on fixed addresses
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- >>Yes there is. A pointer to ExecBase could be passed to the task in a6 when
- >>the task is started.
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- >Maybe you should read Ian's whole message. I don't think
- >different processors have the same registers as the 680x0.
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- Hm, a stack pointer is defined for all processors I know...
- (And passing arguments with the stack is common too)
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- > And thatswhy
- >an absolute memory-address is better.
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- Of course it is better. I made the point that it is *possible* to
- not have a fixed address for user code.
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- Greets,
- Phil.
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