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- From: laire@basis.owl.de (Ralph Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 08:51:33 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
- Message-ID: <4hrgql$39p@news.uni-paderborn.de>
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- On 03/08/96, Marco Nelissen 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.
- >
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- As Mathew Hendry already pointed out you missed the "emulator" part
- of the msg. 680xx programs run in the emulator.
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