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Re: [MiNT] mint & mmu



V Út, 29. 06. 2004 v 17:00, Petr Stehlik píše:
> 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?

LOL

I was talking about SetVec (or what's the function name for setting up
new system vector), not Setexc (executing a subroutine in supervisor
mode). I haven't seen GEMDOS/BIOS/XBIOS documentation for years...

Petr