At 1:26 AM +0100 21-03-00, Robert Herold wrote:
>A suggestion for the Palm team: move all APIs which developers should not
>use out of the public headers. Put them into Palm-internal header files
>which are not made available to developers.
We are working on that. Note there are a lot fewer private headers
distributed with the 3.5 SDK. :-)
It's not easy! Note the number of complaints about the lack of private
headers in the 3.5 SDK.
In this case, we have a legal problem. The Palm Kernel is licensed from
Kadak. Our license does not allow us to expose kernel services to 3rd
parties that do not also have a Kadak license. So if you 'just use' a
timer yourself, you're risking a lawsuit from Kadak.
Unfortunately, there is also the issue of kernel resources reserved by the
OS. There are no extras built in, so in addition to a Kadak license you
also need a custom ROM built with more room reserved for kernel services.
That's why timers are not a supported part of Palm OS, and why you musn't
use them.
--Bob
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