Article View: comp.sys.atari.st
Article #24411Re: The mysteries of Pexec - Help
From: Landon Dyer
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1987 17:33
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1987 17:33
20 lines
1400 bytes
1400 bytes
in article <561@eneevax.UUCP>, iarocci@eneevax.UUCP (Bill Dorsey) says:
>
> Someone wanted to know if gemdos maintains a pointer to the currently exec-
> uting process' basepage; well, it turns out it does. The location is $602C.
> Hope this helps.
Nope, it doesn't help. If you use this location, your software is
*gaurenteed* to break in a new release of the operating system. The
magic location may not, in fact, even work as Bill claims it does.
There *are* several revisions of the TOS ROMs in existence....
--
-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp. {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer
/-----------------------------------------------\
| The views represented here do not necessarily | "If Business is War, then
| reflect those of Atari Corp., or even my own. | I'm a Prisoner of Business!"
\-----------------------------------------------/
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<512@atari.UUcp>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!dyerReferences:
<561@eneevax.UUCP>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!dyer From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: The mysteries of Pexec - Help Message-ID: <512@atari.UUcp> Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 12:33:14 EST Article-I.D.: atari.512 Posted: Mon Jan 12 12:33:14 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Jan-87 01:22:05 EST References: <561@eneevax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20