[ECOS] Newbie - Interrupt Issues

[Jonathan Larmour]

diem.b.dang@delphiauto.com wrote:
> 
> Hello;
>      I'm new to eCos, the questions from our group make me think that the
> disable of all interrupt will ignore all interrupt at that point on untill
> enable is assert. I post this anyway because I think there maybe some new
> interrupt of eCos that I don't know.
> 
>      1) We want to disable all the interrupt for a certain section of code but
> we don't want to lose any interrupt occur during that time(especially the real
> time clock interrupt).
>      When we use cyg_interrupt_disable(void), is it going to destroy all the
> interrupt or is it going to inhibit them (interrupt pending until all interrupt
> is re-enabled with cyg_interrupt_enable(void))?

Only inhibit them. An interrupt handler will run to completion when it
interrupts. You can also mask interrupts if there's only particular
interrupts you want to inhibit.

Jifl
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