From: brad AT tamri DOT com (Brad Walker)
Subject: Re: a DJGPP bug in interrupts
To: sandmann AT praline DOT no DOT neosoft DOT com (Charles Sandmann)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 18:13:14 -0800 (PST)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> > I think I'm hitting a bug in DJGPP and wanted to pass something by you.
> > I've attached my code at the end of this e-mail.
> > 
> > What I'm seeing this that my program never exits. It just keeps on running
> > until I hit a key. Then it exits and freezes. The value of flag gets updated
> 
> You cannot unhook Int 8 or  Int 9 under GO32 because it messes up the IDt.

Could explain a little more for us novices what "IDt" is? I've
looked high and low for it and can't seem to find it.

> Fixes: 
> 1) Run under DPMI

I thought that go32 was a DPMI environment? Is Windows a DPMI env?

> 2) Remove the int 9 reset (but this will caus hangs under some dpmi providers)
> 

How about if I just shift my interrupt to another level? This should
be no problem with go32 should it?

-brad w.

ps: also, i'm not on the list so please reply directly to me.