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Article #672Re: Turbo C 2.0 stdio re-entrancy
From: Steve McCoole
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 1990 22:55
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 1990 22:55
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In article <8930@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> mbeck@wheaties.ai.mit.edu (Mark Becker) writes: > >I'm trying to do two things at once... keeping a time-of-day clock >running in the background and having the same program do some useful >work in the foreground. > >I get the impression that trying to use the same stdio routines >(printf et al) in background as foreground is getting me in trouble >but am unsure of a workaround for this. > You can't use printf or any other routine that tries to malloc memory while you are in a TSR. This may well be at least part of your problem. >Pointers would be appreciated. No problem. Steve McCoole | Applied Computing Devices | smm@acd.com / uunet!acd.com!smm
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!acd4!smm From: smm@acd4.UUCP ( Steve McCoole ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: Turbo C 2.0 stdio re-entrancy Summary: Can't use alot of stdio routines in TSRs. Keywords: interrupt driven output Message-ID: <1990Jun9.225513.26855@acd4.UUCP> Date: 9 Jun 90 22:55:13 GMT References: <8930@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> Reply-To: smm@acd.com ( Steve McCoole ) Organization: Applied Computing Devices, Inc., Terre Haute, IN Lines: 19