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16 years ago

Code to determine interrupt context?

Is it possible for a re-entrant C function to determine in which interrupt context it is running on a NIOSII processor? i.e. if it can be called from both the idle loop and an interrupt handler, can ...
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16 years ago

So the NIOSII processor doesn't have the equivalent of an "interrupt level" register that it uses to decide whether to accept higher priority interrupts, in the way that many lower end processors have?