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- From: laire@basis.owl.de (Ralph Schmidt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 16:19:44 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
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- On 03/16/96, Mike wrote:
- >
- >Hi, Marco Nelissen , on 15-Mar-96 08:25:04 you scribbled....
- >>Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- >>: I can only repeat myself:
- >
- >>So I've noticed...
- >
- >>: If there is a system function for a task then use it instead of
- peeking
- >>: data structures.
- >
- >>SysBase->ThisTask is _R_E_A_D_A_B_L_E_, and always has been. Why
- shouldn't
- >>I use it? If this suddenly fails on a new OS, so be it, but it won't
- be my
- >>fault.
- >
- >He didnt say it will fail....as I see it he meant :
- >
- >If you want to have no problems recompiling for ppc native os4, use
- >FindTask...dont read task data structures..
- >
- >So.. use FindTask(NULL) and getting your program ppc native is a
- matter of
- >recompiling(or maybe not even that) otherwise it gets emulated
- ..slower (which
- >is what you aimed to avoid in the first place!)
- >
-
- Oh well...is it so hard to understand what i said...basic essence was
- to use FindTask(NULL) for all things you`re doing from now on.
- Reading ThisTask directly may not be covered in "all" possible cases.
- So please..to avoid hassle you don┤t have to cause always use
- FindTask().
- And for people that wanna know it in depth...i don┤t wanna add an AI
- engine for the emulation to detect all kind of instructions
- that access Execbase+ThisTask.
-
- To Macro Nelissen...do you need a personal message by AT or old
- CBM engineers that you┤re able to accept this new rule ?
-
- So..let┤s stop this senseless discussion now because there┤s
- nothing here that┤s worth to be discussed.
-
-
-
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