From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Tue Jun 29 17:16:28 2004 Subject: Re: [MiNT] mint & mmu From: Petr Stehlik To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi In-Reply-To: <1088521214.25419.12.camel@joy.sophics> References: <20040629082901.GA17656@hysteria.sk> <003f01c45ddb$dad79900$770963d9@blaszak> <1088521214.25419.12.camel@joy.sophics> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Message-Id: <1088521906.25421.17.camel@joy.sophics> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:11:46 +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at sophics.cz X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at fishpool.fi Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joy@sophics.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id i5TFG0Mg024907 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