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Re: Interrupts with GCC/EGCS


On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 01:02:41AM +0100, Ola Liljedahl wrote:
> 
> PowerPC has one exception for all interrupts (external
> exception). The vectorization has to be done in SW if
> at all (for a simple static design it might not be
> needed). How meaningful would an interrupt keyword in
> gcc be? How interrupt routines are called are not
> specified by the PowerPC architecture but by a custom
> SW architecture.

The compiler could at least save all modified registers for interrupt
routines, so that the assembler wrapper does not have to save unnecessary
registers.

cu
Michael
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