RFC-interupt31-sv/restore

[Uwe Bonnes]

Bob Goodwin <goodie1 at pacbell.net> wrote:

: It appears that there is no limit on calls to interupt_31-AX=0305
: (request the address of the save/restore handler.) That implies more
: than one thread could have a save/restore pointer.

: When calling the save/restore function, the only parameter passed is a
: byte in AL to indicate whether to save the current context or restore a
: saved context. My question is, are there multiple copies of the
: save/restore function or at least multiple entry points? It seems that
: this would be the only way of having multiple unique context saves.

: If only one context can be stored at a time, obviously a spin-lock will
: need to be provided to keep other applications holding until their turn.
: Thanks.

Sorry, I can't help you with that problem. But if you don't get 
help the next days, repeat it on the wine-devel list...

Bye
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