Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:49:56 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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	Tue, 28 Mar 2000 08:31:09 -0500)
Subject: Re: Interrupt wrapper (was Re: keyboard interrupt)
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> What is ___djgpp_ds_alias? is it just some sort of pointer to the
> data segment?

It is just another selector for the data segment, except that we don't
invalidate it during exception processing.  There are a few key times
during the handling of an exception when you need to be able to access
the data segment without letting the application access it, so we have
two selectors available - the regular %DS for the application, and an
alias that the exception processor uses.

> But what exactly is a wrapper; why do we need one?

Because the call/ret rules for regular C functions differ from an
interrupt handler.  The wrapper takes care of that.