Question IRQ interruption during BRK execution .

[BigEd]

For comparison, Acorn's MOS does the same thing in both the early 6502 and later 65C02 versions:

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 irqEntryPoint = $dc1c
    STA .interruptAccumulator                           save A
    PLA                                                 read flags
    PHA                                                 store flags again
    AND #%00010000                                      check BRK flag
    BNE .brkRoutine                                     if (BRK flag set) then branch (to
                                                        BRK handler)
... and on into the IRQ handler

This is nice and fast, but (perhaps notably) not re-entrant. Whether the ISR should be re-entrant is of course a system design decision.

[JimBoyd]

For comparison this is a portion of the Commodore 64's interrupt service routine.

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FFFE @ DIS 
 FF48         PHA
 FF49         TXA
 FF4A         PHA
 FF4B         TYA
 FF4C         PHA
 FF4D         TSX
 FF4E  104 ,X LDA
 FF51   10  # AND
 FF53 FF58    BEQ
 FF55  316  ) JMP
 FF58  314  ) JMP
13 
 OK
CONSOLE 

[barrym95838]

BigEd wrote:

For comparison, Acorn's MOS does the same thing in both the early 6502 and later 65C02 versions:

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 irqEntryPoint = $dc1c
    STA .interruptAccumulator                           save A
    PLA                                                 read flags
    PHA                                                 store flags again
    AND #%00010000                                      check BRK flag
    BNE .brkRoutine                                     if (BRK flag set) then branch (to
                                                        BRK handler)
... and on into the IRQ handler

This is nice and fast, but (perhaps notably) not re-entrant. Whether the ISR should be re-entrant is of course a system design decision.

Woz did somthing very similar on the Apple ][, but curiously decided to ASL ASL ASL BMI instead of AND# BNE ... it wasn't like him to seemingly "waste" a byte of ROM like that, but there you have it. He wouldn't hesitate to spend a handful of cycles to save a byte, but this is larger and slower, so I'm stumped.

[BigEd]

Mmm, that's a puzzler.