Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:47:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:

> But what if IRQ comes when segment registers are different than usual
> for a program written in DJGPP (in ASM block/C library or whatever)? It
> won't work.

Yes, it will work: the wrapper code provided by the library function
_go32_dpmi_allocate_iret_wrapper takes care of restoring the segment
registers and switching the stack _before_ it calls the user-defined
handler.

This is all explained in the FAQ (section 18.9) and in the library
docs, which see.