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- From: marcone@xs1.xs4all.nl (Marco Nelissen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 15:13:41 GMT
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- 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.
-
- Marco
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