CompuServe Messages

Gary: In the current system, nothing happens. In future systems with hardware assisted memory management, the compiler and linker will put all of your shared memory together in a separate block. At address resolution time (on Amigas, this is when the code is loaded into memory) the OS will setup the MMU so that this area can be mapped by more than one application. If you had NOT declared this memory PUBLIC, the MMU would likely mark this range of addresses off limits, and any program trying to access it would cause an exception (GURU). Ariel