Re: [Chicken-users] disable-interrupts

[felix]

Chris Double wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 20:43:36 +0200 (CEST), "Sven Hartrumpf"
> <address@hidden> said:
>
> > "Disable timer-interrupts checks in the compiled program. Threads can
> > not be preempted in main- or library-units that contain this
> > declaration."
>
>
> But when I looked at the generated C code I couldn't see any difference
> between a file compiled with disable-interrupts and without. So how does
> it know to disable the interrupts?

Are you compiling with the "-Ob" option? Then interrupts are disabled
anyway. Without the -disable-interrupts option, or one of the
(way too numerous) declaration specifiers, the backend will
generate calls to `C_check_for_interrupt'.


cheers,
felix