From: qball1723 AT aol DOT com (QBall1723)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Why should lock function
Date: 16 Dec 1997 19:54:07 GMT
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>Hi,
>	i am a novice user of DJGPP and writing codes in PMode. When I
>read other's source code of a mouse handler, I find that he locks some of
>his functions. Just like:
>
>static viod function()
>{
>.......
>}
>
>END_FUNCTION(function);
>
>void lock()
>{
>LOCK_FUNCTION(function);
>}
>
>Can someone tell me the rule of locking a function and what kind of
>functions should be locked. Thanx.
>
>
>KIM.
>
>

When memory starts "paging"... (i.e.: you're using virtual memory.. swapping
pages from/to your hard drive)... you have to lock some code and data...
otherwise you may crash...

A programming bud with more experience than I uses locking for code & data on
his: TimerInterruptHandler, KeyboardInterruptHandler,... stuff like that...


Jim the loiterer (wannabe PC game/graphics developer)
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