Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!jesup
From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Does anyone have a code example for CreateProc function of AmigaDos?
Message-ID: <7207@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 89 01:04:15 GMT
References: <17336@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <17336@gryphon.COM> rickf@pnet02.cts.com (Rick Flower) writes:
>I'm working on a program that needs the ability to spawn 8 different tasks
>(well, ok, processes!) and use the least amount of memory as possible.  What I
>thought that I would do is LoadSeg the actual program that needs to be spawned
>8 times and then CreateProc() the same code 8 times.  I think it will work, as
>long as I make the program that was LoadSeg'd allocate the memory it needs
>instead of using assembly time data areas.  Perhaps this will also not work?
>I don't know at this point, but I'm basically looking for some code that shows
>examples of the CreateProc function and how it will interact with the parent
>process, in either Assembly or "C"...

	What you want will work, so long as you don't use any globals, unless
they're referenced like you would in a "pure" program - in an allocated data
area via a base register.  Lattice cres.o startup module does this automatically
when linked into a program.

	
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