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2. Re: routine id

• Posted by Humberto Yeverino <humberto at ENGR.CSUFRESNO.EDU> Sep 09, 1998
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• Last edited Sep 10, 1998

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Brett Pantalone wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Is it possible to create an interrupt service routine in Euphoria?  It is
> clear to me that the routine_id function does not return a C-style
> function pointer.  I am not very familiar with how interpreted languages
> work, so I'm not even sure if a given routine has an actual address. If
> it could be done, how would one obtain the "address" of the routine to
> use as an interrupt vector?  This doesn't seem like it would work at
> all, but I think that later versions of QBasic let the programmer create
> interrupt service routines.  Let me know if I am wrong.
>
> -- Brett
>
There is a way to simulate interupts.  Have some counter variable T and
call the routine ids from a "vector" sequence every so often.  But you
have to keep checking the counter if it's time to execute the interupt
vector all the time.

Anyone else have any ideas?

-Humberto Yeverino Jr.

"I kick ass for the Lord."

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