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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: relocatable code
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.054721.10346@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 23 Dec 90 05:47:21 GMT
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ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy) writes:

>I am curious how you would insure that a position independent code segment
>would not cross a bank boundary, particularly in the context of a Memory
>Manager compaction.

The memory manager attribute attrNoCross takes care of it. Position independent
code segments can move and they can hop over bank boundaries, but the memory
manager won't try to put them across a bank boundary.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu