RE: [MiNT] Correct way to detect MiNT kernal?

[atari@bright.net (Lonny Pursell)]

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:06:50 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:

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>>
>> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:12:46 +0100 (CET), Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
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>> >> Anyway it is related to memory protection.  Back when I was told
>> >> my program did not function correctly I recoded it to correct this.
>> >> However, as it turns out the extra bits in the mxalloc() calls
>> >> caused serious problems on TOS 4.04 without the mint kernal present.
>> >> Ozk knows this to be true as well.  ;-)
>> >
>> >Then you needs to detect TOS, not MiNT :-) Magic ignores these bits, so
>> >you have to only worry not to set them under TOS 4.
>>
>> It was said somewhere that TOS ignored them too, which seems to be
>> true with TOS 3.06 on my TT.
>>
>> That makes perfect sense.  However there is many TOS versions
>> and newer/modified ones in the clones.  It seems much simpler to narrow
>> the test to the kernal since it is only the kernal that uses the
>> extra bits.  That's just my opinion though.  ;-)
>
>Yes, and I think you are wrong. Not ignoring the bits when they are not
>needed is a bug. MagiC is safe, so you should set the bits there as well...

I see.  Like I told others I do not have MagiC to run any tests with.
Well I thank you for your help and insight.

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