You're right, Wouter.
Missuse of "recursive".
What *I* ment was of course exactly what you describe...

Sorry about that.

Jan-Erik.


> Sent: den 28 juni 2006 22:32
> To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
> Subject: RE: [PIC] C18 resource remaining metric/test
> 
> 
> > > I still think that recursive interrupts was the root cause of 
> > > my troubles...
> > 
> > If you where trying to run without clearnig the TMR3IF bit,
> > then yes, that would have been a problem.
> 
> JE: are you sure about that? AFAIK the only way to get recursive
> interrupts (interrupt while still in the interrupt) is explicitly
> re-enabling interrupts within the interrupt code.
> 
> Returning from the interrupt whithout clearing the interrupt source
> would cause a perpetual interrupt: immediately after an interrupt 
the
> main code would be interrupted again. Not nice, but definitely not 
the
> same as recursive interrupts. For the guru's: would the main code
> execute 0 instructions, or 1, or maybe even more?
> 
> Wouter van Ooijen
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