> turning off interrupts just masks them. the interrupt
> hardware should
> "latch" them and they fire when you reenable
> interrupts.
>
> You loose track of "how many" not if any
> happened...
>
> marty
Thanks Marty,
a follow up question,
why do we need to save the flags then ? if the interrupt hardware would
latch them ?
can we not just disable all interrupts ?
TIA,
Fundo
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