RE: [MiNT] Proposal for SLB extension

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

Jörg Westheide wrote:
> JR>How about reading the SLB spec before continuing this discussion? :-)
> Done.
> And it seems to me that it's a typical MagiC design :-(
>
> JR>This can't be used, because there is no variable "basepage" to which
> JR>the function call handler would have access to.
> Well as the kernel already has to provide some user code, why not provide
> some short application "specific" code?
> Something like this:
>
> basepage: dc.l 0
> local_slbexec:
>     move.l basepage, d0
>     jmp global_slbexec
>
> With this the variable basepage has to be filled while slb_open() and it's
> content is automatically passed at each call of an slb function.
> This will also speed up calls to libraries that need the pointer to the
> basepage

Actually, it could be even shorter.

However it has the drawback that for every process that accesses an SLB, the
kernel needs to allocate additional memory.

Konrad?