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Re: [MiNT] Proposal for SLB extension



Hi!

On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 01:50:37PM +0200, Julian Reschke wrote:
> However this does not necessarily mean that act_pd under MiNT still points
> to the same place as in the underlying GEMDOS. And even if it does right
> now, that doesn't mean that this will be the case in all future MiNT
> releases.

Remember that act_pd is part of the TOS header, so changing this would
require faking one and would also mean that TSRs run before MiNT were no
longer able to get the current basepage address by reading the address
they found when examing the TOS header.

Furthermore, act_pd is found at a fixed location for TOS 1.0, as it
wasn't part of the TOS header in this version. Faking a TOS header with
a different version number wouldn't be a good idea, IMO.


Ciao

Thomas


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