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- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
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- From: heinz@hwg.muc.de (Heinz Wrobel)
- Message-ID: <heinz.17b8@hwg.muc.de>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 96 21:05:56 GMT
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- Oliver Kastl (100447.3361@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
- >Is this change really neccessary, and why? SysBase->ThisTask is
- >documented to be safe to read, so existing programs may rely on
- >this.
-
- Yes. "Existing programs". For the PPC side of a new OS, not
- only ExecBase as you know it will and must disappear. The reason is
- clear to anyone who ever thought about what the future can hold for
- AmigaOS in high end machines. Obviously there must and will be
- reasonable new replacement interfaces for the legal things that may
- be done.
-
- Caching $4 and using the defined interface is so easy.
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