Re: End Of Dragonball? Palm Shakeup?

[Michael Sokolov]

Oliver King-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 4) Allowing globals in shared libraries (I know you can sort of do this
> right now but you can't handle the case of the compiler generated globals).

First, you currently *can* have compiler-generated globals in shared libraries
if you use a real compiler (hint, hint). Second, *all* of PalmOS's contortions
with PC-relative code, segments, globals, etc. result directly from the
Dragonball lacking a virtual address-translating MMU. Does ARM have an MMU and
virtual addresses? If it does, you will simply forget about all these
contortions and program like on UNIX.

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