From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Thu Jun 24 16:29:48 2004 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:24:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Frank Naumann X-X-Sender: fnaumann@wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de To: MiNT Mailing List Subject: Re: [MiNT] AES desktop extension In-Reply-To: <40DACB32.8070303@utbm.fr> Message-ID: References: <40DACB32.8070303@utbm.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) X-Spam-Report: ---- Start SpamAssassin results -4.9 points, 5.0 required; -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] ---- End of SpamAssassin results X-Scan-Signature: 4d9bf91ef5f078dc1e86ee8b1dcc7295 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at fishpool.fi Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com 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: fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de 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 Hello! >> BTW: another point against the userdef stuff: with most AESes (i don't >> know for XaAES), userdraw subroutines are not allowed to call AES >> functions (AES is not re-entrant). That may lead the system to crash. > > It's true for old AES only in monotos, it work perfectly under Magic, MyAeS > and I think under NAES, XaAES and perhaps Geneva. The only restriction can > comme with supervisor stack size. As already mentioned it will not run in supervisormode under XaAES and thus using the application stack (handled like a signal handler). Invoking traps from the progdef is in general a bad idea, I don't know for what this can be good for. Ciao ...Frank -- ATARI FALCON 040 // MILAN 060 ----------------------------------------- http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~fnaumann/ e-Mail: fnaumann@freemint.de