Re: IRQ's in Amiga VSTa

[larz@world.std.com (Mike A Larson) writes:]

>If you passed the tcode "source" to enable_isr(), I don't see why
>you need position independence. This means, of course, that the
>kernel needs to translate the tcode "source" to something that
>can be interpreted, but TIL's tend to have very simple syntax's.

A parser in the kernel. I'm getting the shivers! :-)

>Thanks for the example. A couple of questions - how you handle the case
>where there are multiple interrupt bits (eg,. complete interrupt, error
>interrupt, etc.)? Also, do you plan to add logical operations (eg.,
>read the contents of a register, bitwise OR in a flag, and write the
>value back to the register)?

Well, the point is that you create a P-code which is exactly sufficient for
the target architecture. So until you NEED such an operation, the operation
does not exist. Minimalism at its finest!

                                                Andy
Received on Fri Nov 11 10:10:41 1994