[Freemint-list] [MiNT] fVDI in FreeMiNT CVS?

[Thorsten Otto]

On Monday 07 November 2016 03:28:43 Miro Kropáček wrote:
> I mean Aranym itself is killed by the host OS. That kind of behaviour has
> been always attributed to the JIT builds but the fact even the MMU/normal
> builds are vulnerable is news to me.

Hm thats strange. The MMU build is used to run linux-68k mainly, and since 
that involves real virtual memory management, i guess it should be rather 
stable, otherwise that won't work. Are you sure you were using a MiNT with 
memory protection enabled, and also run set_mmu.prg before MiNT? Without that, 
you won't have any memory protection, only a slower version of aranym ;) 
set_mmu is neccessary because aranym emulates a '040, and mint does not 
activate MP on its own when compiled for 040.

The normal build suffers from the same problems as the JIT build, except that 
exception handling is usually somewhat dfferent. It should also be a bit more 
stable with respect to "wild" memory addresses.