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From: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Integer Size problem
Message-ID: <13727@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 89 21:04:25 GMT
References: <15141@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <11689@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <1465@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>Wrong. Incorrect. What happens if a interrupt happens between the set
>pointers and the block move instruction ? And this interrupt happens
>to shuffle memory ? LOCK THE HANDLES first ! ALWAYS !

  As I understand it, interrupt routines can't do any memory allocation
stuff during the service of the interrupt.  I always felt that this was one
of the funner aspects of the Mac's OS.  Am I wrong???
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