[hatari-devel] GEMDOS emulation, what are the legal ST memory areas to write to?

Thomas Huth huth at users.berlios.de
Tue Nov 24 22:22:44 CET 2009


On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:08:50 +0100 (CET)
npomarede at corp.free.fr wrote:

>   - it is really forbidden to write above the end of the ram ? Of
> course, written value will be lost, but I think the writes should be
> allowed if address is out of ram, but silently discarded.

The problem is that this memory area might not be mapped at all when
you compile Hatari with the ENABLE_SMALL_MEM flag. Then this might
override some of the emulators data or cause a segmentation fault.

 Thomas



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