Re: [MiNT] Re[2]: Calling gemdos function from Interruption

[Olivier Landemarre <olivier.landemarre@utbm.fr>]

Ingo Schmidt wrote:

> Hi!
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> > The only way I ever found to do this was to use two processes/threads.
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> You are right, except...
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> > It is not safe to call any AES functions from a signal handler.
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> ... that it IS safe in XaAES!
> It does not work in other AES (at least I wouldn't know).
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> But in XaAES it works perfectly fine to send an AES message from
> within a signal handler.
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It work fine too in MyAeS ;-) (but I not think to this when I write it! 
I thought for other AES it was the same but when I think to what you 
said, I suppose it's possible that NAES dislike this, but I'm near sure 
it work on Magic)

> I use this a lot in one of my programs and it works perfectly fine. On
> other systems (e.g. n.AES) I have to start another process, that does
> what you described (waiting in a GEMDOS call and sending AES messages)
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> > I added the PsigIntr call to MiNT specifically to allow a user program
> > to direct hardware interrupts to a user's signal handler.
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> Ah, that was you! Nice function.
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Olivier