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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 01:23:50
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- Marco Nelissen (marcone@xs1.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : Ralph Schmidt (laire@basis.owl.de) wrote:
- : : >Is this change really neccessary, and why? SysBase->ThisTask is
- : : >documented to be safe to read, so existing programs may rely on
- : : >this.
- :
- : : Oliver...where did i write that existing programs that use this now
- : : will break. Read the text again and my other article to clear this up.
- :
- : You disinctly said:
- : >Never ever use SysBase->ThisTask for your programs. It will be
- : >banned/forbidden in the next OS release. So please start using
- : >FindTask(NULL) now to make the life easier for an emulator.
- :
- : "banned/forbidden" implies that in the next OS release, you cannot read
- : SysBase->ThisTask, which means that existing programs would break
- : on the new OS.
-
- _Existing_ programs will be running under emulation, of course, in which case
- FindTask() can probably be emulated. If the _native_ OS does not support
- it, however, then clearly programs which use it will fail when recompiled to
- run in native mode...
-
- -- Mat.
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