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What happens if an interrupt occurs as it is already disabled

Manyam over 11 years ago

for ARMv7 architecture:What happens if an interrupt occurs as it is already disabled

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Peter Harris over 11 years ago +2 verified

If an interrupt is masked in the CPSR then the short answer is nothing - the processor will simply ignore any interrupts which arrive when the interrupt is masked. However, in most cases interrupts are...