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Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:10:46 +0200
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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: __go32__dpmi ?
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> From: "smile773" <smile773 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 15:15:39 GMT
> >
> > I should warn you up front that real-mode callbacks have some downsides;
> > for starters, they are non-reentrant.
> *********************************************************************
> Does non-reentrant mean that the attributes bytes can be swapped only as
> they
> are caught and not after the application completes ?

No, it means that if you are in the middle of handling an Int 10h
function call, and someone calls another function of Int 10h, the
second call will not end up in your handler, it will be routed to the
old handler (in the BIOS, usually).

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