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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Michael Obenland wrote:
> > When using LegOS (a most excellent creation, btw) is it possible to store a
> > value and use it in different programs?
>
> What you request is shared memory and shared memory is not a part of legOS. My
> way to simulate shared mem is to put the two (or more) tasks into one legOS
> program. Each task is started as a thread by an execi() call, triggered by the
> user via the remote control.
>
> Is someone out there working on a legOS memory pool implementation??
As there is no memory management, any memory not on the stack is by
definition shared between any threads. Concurrency control is up to you
however.
John A. Tamplin jat@jaet.org
770/436-5387 HOME 4116 Manson Ave
770/431-9459 FAX Smyrna, GA 30082-3723
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| (...) It was suggested by some of my 'c++' co-workers that this was the case (shared memory was available). However, I don't deal with that in my Visual Basic world. They also suggested there were 'unused' memory blocks in LegOS where data could be (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) What you request is shared memory and shared memory is not a part of legOS. My way to simulate shared mem is to put the two (or more) tasks into one legOS program. Each task is started as a thread by an execi() call, triggered by the user via (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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