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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 11:32:04 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- marcone@xs1.xs4all.nl (Marco Nelissen) writes:
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- >Bull. If AT decides to remove the ThisTask field (and God knows how many others),
- >all current software will have to be examined
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- No. Software was supposed to use the FindTask function. Not using FindTask is a bug
- that just happens to be harmless. It is as buggy as relying on having only chip memory.
- As soon as ExecBase changes you lose; as soon as machines got fast memory you lost.
- There is not much of a difference.
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- >and possibly reprogrammed before
- >being recompiled to native PPC code.
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- Obviously you cannot expect a future system to be bug compatible and recompiling is
- an easy method to find references to modified structures. Most of such structure
- references aren't as harmless as SysBase->ThisTask anyway.
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- Wether emulated 68k programs get an emulated ExecBase as well is another question.
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