On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:28:27AM -0400, Vladimir G Stanishev wrote:
> hello. all the macros in version 1.1 are replaced by functions in
> version 2.1 - S_CLI, S_STI... why was that change made, why use
> functions instead, other than because it's easier to read maybe? Also I
GCC is pretty good about inline functions, when functions are not inlined
modern systems are sometimes faster (the original version was 486 centric).
And it's much easier to debug and maintain.
> still havn't figured out how rtl_global.rtl_off is used (I've stopped
For debugging and initialization. During initialization, we let Linux
have hard interrupt control because the RT system is not ready to go to
work. After initialization, rtl is on until a panic, when we can turn it
off again.
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