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- From: gregh@alw.nih.gov (Gregory Humphreys)
- Subject: Re: Why can't I hook INT 21h???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.175406.3881@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
- References: <14340@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Aug18.034041.195326@zeus.calpoly.edu> <frank.714406708@fam168>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:54:06 GMT
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- In article <frank.714406708@fam168>, Frank Hoffmann <fh.pad@sni.de> writes:
- |> rmathews@zeus.calpoly.edu (Bob Mathews) writes:
- |>
- |> >Charlie_Hutchins@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Hutchins) writes:
- |> >>Okay, maybe someone could help me here. I am trying to write a TSR
- |> >>that hooks interrupt 21h but whenever I try and hook that vector I
- |> >>get an invalid command.com error and my system crashes. I am using
- |> >>TC++ 3.0 ....
- |> >[code deleted]
- |>
- |> >The turbo c interrupt function automatically saves all cpu registers.
- |> >The return values from DOS are getting clobbered. Code like this
- |> >absolutely needs to be written in assembly. You need to have complete
- |> >control of what's happening to the machine.
- |>
- |> >swehtam bob
- |>
- |> Same does MSC 5/6. You must write in ASM as well or add additional ASM-Code
- |> to restore the regs and the stack-ptr.
-
- IMUST disagree here. I have written numerous similar programs in C and hooking
- interrupts is just as reliable in C. There is NOTHING you can't do in C that you CAN in assembley.
-
- |>
- |> frank
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