Re: Why ISR contains no arguments and return type is void

From: Active8 (reply2group_at_ndbbm.net)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:03:18 -0400

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:24:56 -0400, Ben Bradley wrote:

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> IIRC, the Mac used a similar instruction (one word, basically "go
> to vector x in the vector table") named trap in the 68000, and these
> OS calls were called 'trap' calls. At least that didn't cause the
> confusion over the name interrupt.
>

Yup. TRAP. That *is* a better name. The whole chip made sense.
<snip>

>
> And there's always comp.arch.embedded.
>
Oh yeah. 

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Mike
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