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Re: [MiNT] Proposal for SLB extension



Hi!

On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 12:48:00AM +0200, Jörg Westheide wrote:
> The possible problems are not at the application level, they are at the user
> level!

Sorry? If an SLB with the new flag is used with a system not supporting
it, there will be no problem (unless the system checks the flag and
refuses to load the SLB). As the flagged SLBs do _not_ need the address
of the basepage of the calling process, but are to ignore the value
passed as the first parameter to each function, they will happily work
with a system that does send the basepage address.

Vice versa, an old SLB without the flag will still work with operating
systems supporting the new flag. So I really don't see why any user
should even need to know about the difference.


Ciao

Thomas


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