Re: reenabling interrupts on return from function

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On 15 Jun 2002, Justin Carlson wrote:

> However, I still don't see the point of the above code.  Why do we
> explicitly clear bits 4-0 of the status register just before reloading
> it from the system stack?  

 Not to receive an interrupt in the middle of register restoration.

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