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From: mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Interrupt level tasks
Message-ID: <6081@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 89 23:38:56 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Is there anyway to perform tasks that get move memory at the interrupt
level?  For instance, i need to change some TE records, bring up a 
dialog box, draw some text, etc.  All of which move memory.

The reason i NEED to do it at interrupt level is that the information is
coming in over appletalk via asynch calls and if i don't process it right
away, it may get lost.  I could buffer it to memory, but then i'd have to  
create nodes in something like a linked list and this moves memory also.

Anybody tried anything similiar and have some brilliant insights on the
idea?

I thought of buffering to disk cause file manager calls don't move memory,
but i could end up getting interrupted so often that the buffer file
becomes extremely large and causes other sorts of problems.

Michael O'Rourke