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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 16:51:17 +1100
From: Mark Mendes da Costa <mark AT itsmyparty DOT com DOT au>
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I've been messing around with interrupt handling and I noticed that in
Allegro's IRQ wrapper it loads ds, fs, es and gs with __djgpp_ds_alias,
why is this necessary?
And what does the line .byte 0x2e /* cs: override */ mean?
Also, what is a reentrant interrupt?

Thanks,
Alex MDC