Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:24:55 +0200 (IST)
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Karsten Schmidt wrote:

> I'm currently porting a Borland 16bit library to DJGPP and therefore I
> must chain the interrupt of a PCI device.
> When I use the _go32_dpmi_chain_protected_mode_interrupt_vector() the
> library seems to work fine for a while, but suddenly the program hangs
> and the only thing I can do is to reboot the machine.

I don't see any code which locks the code and the data touched by the 
interrupt handler.  If you indeed don't do that, I suggest to try locking 
everything (use the appropriate bit in _crt0_startup_flags), and see if 
the problem goes away.

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