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

["Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:12:46 +0100 (CET), Konrad M. Kokoszkiewicz wrote:
>
> >> 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...