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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Allocating long-lived memory blocks
Keywords: Malloc, Gemdos
Message-ID: <1184@atari.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 88 19:49:02 GMT
References: <39610@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <39617@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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No, there is no supported way to accomplish what you ask.  However,
the two methods you describe should work.

Please note that, while the current-process variable was documented for
TOS 1.4, it does exist in TOS 1.2 -- that's Mega ROMs.  But it does not
exist, documented or not, in TOS 1.0, so don't assume it was there and
we didn't document it. 

As you say, writing to this variable is not supported.  However, if I
had to choose, that's the route I would take.  I'm not promising,
just advising.

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt