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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Help! (AmigaDOS CreateProc/LoadSeg)
Message-ID: <06417.AA06417@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 6 Mar 91 11:58:01 GMT
References: <63329@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <19578@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <19578@cbmvax.commodore.com>,
ken@cbmvax.commodore.com (Ken Farinsky - CATS) writes:

> LoadSeg() needs a BPTR to a seg list, which can be faked
> like:
>
>         /* From Mike Sinz AmigaMail example */
>         struct CodeHdr
>                 {
>                 ULONG SegSize;   /* sizeof(struct CodeHdr) */
>                 ULONG NextSeg;   /* Must be NULL */
>                 UWORD JumpInstr; /* set to 0x4EF9 (a jump instruction) */
>                 APTR Function;   /* a pointer to the function */
>                 }

I'd call this self-modifying code.

Ralph