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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Protected Objects and Interrupt Handlers
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:02:09 +0000
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:

> Last but no least - Simon has pointed you towards an article (a book
> chapter, in fact) where the interrupts are handled by regular
> procedures instead - as an author of that text I feel responsible for
> clarifying why - the reason is that the book consistently assumes a
> zero-runtime execution platform, where the necessary scaffolding for
> protected objects (namely: actual synchronization) simply does not
> exist.

A minor point: a common cited advantage of the Cortex series is that
ISRs can be written in ordinary code, without compiler magic. This seems
to imply that other MCUs _do_ need compiler magic!