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- From: marcone@xs1.xs4all.nl (Marco Nelissen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Date: 19 Mar 1996 08:06:41 GMT
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : Ralph has stated that 68k emulation will read old structures as normal.
- : In PPC it won't, they'll change. So what.
- [SNIP!]
- : ...... Compare this with the massive amount of extra work Ralph
- : would have to do to make it the same as it was before......
-
- I don't understand why it is so hard to have a readable execbase in PPC
- mode, when it is already emulated in 68k mode.
- If the new OS has memory protection (which it should have, what else is
- the MMU for?), then it should be trivial to present each task (PPC or
- otherwise) with it's own copy of execbase and other system structures
- that can be read be the program.
-
- : As long as we have clear documentation on what the changes are and how to
- : implement them, I've no problems in altering any existing methods in my
- : code to deal with the new operating system.
-
- Well, I haven't seen any documentation yet, so I can't comment on that.
-
- Marco
-