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Re: [MiNT] UNIXMODE defaults



Am Dienstag, den 06.07.2010, 00:53 +0200 schrieb Vincent Rivière
<vincent.riviere@freesbee.fr>:
> m0n0 wrote:
>  > I once had an look into an mult-threading lib for the atari st,...
But I
>  > think it will not work with the multi-tasking OSes, because it
switches
>  > the Stack Pointers / PC within current process...
> 
> This is legal, as long as the program stays in its own process space and

> does not switch to supervisor mode and mess the CPU vectors and the
> hardware.

I meant IP instead of PC and yes, it needs to go into Supervisor mode to
do that. :)