From: qballlives AT aol DOT com (QBallLives)
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Subject: Re: dosmemget and memcpy inside an interrupt handler
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Date: 13 Jun 1998 11:02:02 GMT
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>On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Javier Calleja wrote:
>
>>   May I have problems if I use 'dosmemget' or 'memcpy' functions inside
>> the Packet Driver software interrupt handler?
>
>The only consideration is that you should lock all the memory that is 
>involved in moving the data by either of these two functions.  Other than 
>that, you should be fine.
><

The amount of work you're doing in the interrupt handler is also a
consideration, if your doing... say... the clearing of a double_buffer in
there... or something that takes longer than that... you should avoid it....


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