At 3:55 AM +0200 06/28/00, Tom Zerucha wrote:
>> * "Non volatile" data. There is a special area of RAM that the OS stores
>>things
>> in, and that it carefully saves and restores even across cold resets. I know
>> that the current date is stored in there, but not much else.
>>Applications don't
>> have access to this block of data.
>
>The Globals? Note the install application may SET this but a memory
>wipe wouldn't restore it.
Low memory globals are cleared on a regular reset. There aren't any other
globals.
>I thought features were preserved across soft-resets.
Nope. Deliberately the opposite, in fact. Features and FtrPtrs are
cleared out on a normal reset. They're handy non-dynamic-heap storage
space for runtime use only. If you want memory to be saved across resets,
use a database!
--Bob
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