Re: [MiNT] mint & mmu

[Petr Stehlik <joy@sophics.cz>]

V Út, 29. 06. 2004 v 16:55, Frank Naumann píše:
> > ... pointer and this is also not necessary, because the cookie jar pointer,
> > and most low mem variables can be read via BIOS's function Setexc(), and
> > without switching to Super().
> 
> Setexc() takes a function pointer that is called out in supervisor mode. I 
> see no difference against a function that do Super() at the beginning and 
> the end.

You don't know the trick with passing -1L for querying the original
pointer value?

Unfortunately it is not working OK in all versions of TOS, some older
1.x versions didn't allow for reading higher variables, and also not all
variables are at long word boundary.

Petr