Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!masnet!canremote!john.russell
From: john.russell@canremote.uucp (JOHN RUSSELL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Packed programs & MMUs
Message-ID: <89120318304851@masnet.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 89 23:30:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Has anyone looked at the programs to compress executables into other
executables (e.g., PowerPacker or MasterCrunch) to see if the methods
they use will be compatible with futxDure developments of the Amiga
line?  If an Exec with virtual memory and memory protection comes along, 
will the unpacking process cause protection violations, or will the
unpacked executables have problems that regular executables don't?
 
Certainly if an equivalent to fixhunk was written to patch MEMF_PUBLIC
somehow within existing programs, it would be inconvenient for people
who have all their big programs packed!
 
John
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