Re: questions about eret....

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On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:06:43AM +0800, machael thailer wrote:

> > >     I have a question to ask about eret.
> > >
> > >     In RC4xxx/RC32334, after eret finished, does it automatically enable
> IE
> > > bit of STATUS register?
> >
> > ERET does not influence the state of the IE bit.
> 
> I agree with you, but the RC32334 User manual (14-13 section) say  it does
> and say we must run a "CLI" just before eret to disable IE bit in Status
> register .

That has a different reason.  Eret takes the return address from the
EPC register and if you'd take an exception between restoring that and the
eret you'd loose it's content - crash boom bang.

  Ralf


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