At 09:53 AM 12/6/2004, you wrote:
>Hmm, that's something for the original author - compare do_pending_intr() 
>and ext_intr(), one of them explicitly sets PSL_EE, the other one masks it 
>out - so do_pending_intr() only intends to turn off interrupts at some 
>point, but ext_intr() explixitly turns them on. Looks intentional.

Because on a EE exception, PSL_EE gets turned off and it has to be
forcibly reenabled for further interrupts to occur (or nested interrupts).


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