Re: [cc65] mouse irq callback

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From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2003-10-07 15:31:19 

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:41:03PM +0200, Groepaz wrote:
> however, (in theory) there _is_ a irq handling api - see signal.h :=) all it
> takes is implementing "alarm" for example, and then you can have timer
> interupts (if the signal api works with c-code as signal handler that is,
> didnt check that :=))

I do still think that writing interrupt handlers in C is a bad idea because of
the overhead involved, and because most people don't realize that you can do
almost nothing in a signal handler, besides storing something into a variable
of type sig_atomic_t. 

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz_at_musoftware.de
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