From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP gurus: interrupts wrappers are reentrant ?
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 12:08:48 +0000
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Laurentiu Badea writes:
>My interrupt handler is designed to be "reentrant" (if another
>interrupt arrives while the current one is still served, then
>my handler just counts it), as in the attached simple program.
>Then why it hangs or keeps reporting 0 "lost irqs", at best ?

The interrupt wrappers produced by _go32_dpmi_allocate_iret_wrapper are
indeed not reentrant, because they only allocate a single stack for the
handler to use. To make this work you need to write your own asm wrapper
routine: look at the files irq.c and irqwrap.s from Allegro for an
example of how to do this...


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