From: Christer Palm (palm_at_nogui.se)
Date: 2003-02-02 16:40:10
Nicolas Welte; address is valid for replies (Re:) only! wrote:
>
> Can anyone think of problems that I could create when I patch this code
> fragment?
>
As Groepaz points out, the C64 KERNAL has the same piece of code. Many
replacement ROMs (i.e. SpeedDOS and the like) already has it removed, so
it should be 100% safe to remove it.
It is indeed one of the major reasons to why many programs do not
survive a reset properly.
Its history would surely make a good piece of trivia. It was hardly put
in there by mistake and it couldn't be one of those "am I running from
ROM?" protection mechanisms as such a mechanism would surely write
something different than what's already there.
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Christer Palm
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