From: "Chris A. Triebel" <cat AT sun4 DOT iol DOT unh DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Need Shawn's (or anybody's) advice on making joystick buffer...
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 14:52:40 -0400
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On 10 May 1997, Calvin French wrote:

> Date: 10 MAY 1997 17:19:52 GMT 
> From: Calvin French <frenchc AT cadvision DOT com>
> Newgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Subject: Re: Need Shawn's (or anybody's) advice on making joystick buffer... 
> 
> What can I say? Holy moly! :-) And I couldn't get past the fourth beer 
> at the Millenial Fair in Chrono Trigger. I'll try and poll about 60 
> times per second, then... I just hope I don't get into reentrancy at 
> that rate.

It's possible that you could solve this problem by using a flag which 
when set does not allow you to re-enter the function.  Say something like 
this ...

static int flag=0;
void stick(void)
{
	if(flag)
		return;
	else
	{
		flag=1;
		do_stuff_here
		flag=0;
		return;
	}
}

cat