At 01:43 AM 8/19/2006 +0400, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

>e> are disabled by INT 15, and restored by iret)      You miss, that only 
>recent releases of EMM386 do now respect original flags value on the stack 
>- previous releases just directly manipulate IF flag and do "retf 2". te> 
>So I assume that pushf/cli/popf got there in the first place because te> 
>some buggy real world bios was detected to te>    int15handler: 
>te>       ..... te>       sti te>       stc     (or whatever flags should 
>be returned) te>       retf 2 te> and to fix this bug.      This was EMM386.

No, predates it.  We were looking at BIOS results without EMM386 in the 
way.  Whatever EMM386 may or may not have done, and whatever effect that 
may or may not have had, a BIOS did before it.


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