Re: GEM and memory protection

[q-funk@megacom.net (Martin-Eric Racine)]

 >it seems from previous discussions that memory protection is practically
 >unusable with GEM, mainly because of the AV protocol.
 >
 >What about a patch that would set the process protection flags to Global,
 >if the process is a GEM application (i.e. it is launched by AESSYS)?

Something like (flowchart, not C) might be good:

if PrgFlag=(nothing)
   then PrgFlag=Global
fi

 >This sounds a hack, but IMHO a partial protection is better than no
 >protection at all (and the memory protection feature of MiNT is not widely
 >used mainly because of troubles that GEM causes). 
 >
 >BTW. I've recently enabled the memory protection on the TT and it works

Memory protection NEVER worked on my TT, even if I try setting everything
to Global as a minimum protection...


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