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RE: precompiled header support


On Tue, 11 May 2004, Dave Korn wrote:

>   Mind you, I worry that this kind of reasoning may harbour unstated
> all-the-worlds-a-*nix assumptions.  Gunther mentions the Amiga/68k; I can't
> think of any other host platforms off the top of my head, but it's a good
> example: it's a non memory-protected OS, where all apps share the same
> memory space (yeh; a bit out-of-date, I know, but it imposes a bit of
> discipline on your resource allocation and deallocation coding techniques
> when you know you have to free every malloc because it won't get released
> just because your process exits!)...

It may be "out of date" but here's a few more examples:

ucLinux - no MMU
PalmOS prior to version 5 - ran on an m68k w/o MMU
WinCE I believe uses a single address space for all apps
MacOS for the m68k
etc.

Toshi



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