When to save/restore_flags() vs cli/sti()

B. James Phillippe (bryan@terran.org)
Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:19:53 -0800 (PST)

Greetings,

I'd like to know more details on when exactly it is safe to use the simpler
cli()/sti() combination over the save_flags()/restore_flags().

thanks,
-bp

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B. James Phillippe		. bryan@terran.org
Software Engineer, WGT Inc.	. http://www.terran.org/~bryan






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