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Cygnal port - portENTER_CRITICAL

Posted by Nobody/Anonymous on November 17, 2005
I have a question on the portENTER_CRITICAL() and portEXIT_CRITICAL() macros in the Cygnal port (portmacro.h):
What is the reason for the pushing and popping of IE? Can't you just disable interrupts and enable them (EA = 0 on ENTER and EA = 1 on EXIT)?

Thanks.

RE: Cygnal port - portENTER_CRITICAL

Posted by Nobody/Anonymous on November 17, 2005
Each task maintains its own interrupt state so the register must be saved. One task may disable interrupts, but then cause a context switch. Wile it is swapped out another task will run which may have interrupts enabled. When the original task starts again it must start with its expected context - interrupts being disabled.


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