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From: ld AT jasmine DOT netrix DOT com (Long Doan)
Subject: Re: Keyboard handler
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Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 15:16:27 GMT
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
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In article <458h8r$cek$1 AT mhafc DOT production DOT compuserve DOT com> Owen <100607 DOT 3203 AT CompuServe DOT COM> writes:

> From: Owen <100607 DOT 3203 AT CompuServe DOT COM>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: 8 Oct 1995 12:47:23 GMT
> Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736)
> 
> I am using V2 beta of DJGPP and trying to replace the default 
[snipped]
> int keys;
> void keyb_handler(void);
> void keyb_handler()
> { keys++; }
> main()
> {
[snipped]
> new_handler.offset32=(long)keyb_handler;
> new_handler.selector=_go32_my_ds();
> if (__dpmi_set_protected_mode_interrupt_vector(9,&new_handler)==0)
[snipped]

  You have two options:
  1. Allocate a wrapper for your ISR. This warpper will do the
necessary stuffs (save registers, setup %ds, swap stacks, locking, etc) that
your function does not (and needs to) do.
  2. Write your function in assembly or inline assembly. You'll have
to do some of the above stuff in the ISR, mainly:
     - Save some general registers.
     - Setup %ds to points to a descriptor that has base = cs's
descriptor base. This doesn't have to be done if the ISR doesn't
access any variable.
     - Swap stack (if necessary)
     - Cleanup properly and iret.
Also, you'll have to lock your code, data, and stack if you plan to do
without the wrapper.

Long.
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