Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!reading!cf-cm!justin From: justin@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Justin Shuttleworth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel Subject: 80286 POPF problem? Summary: why call an IRET instead of POPF Keywords: 80286 POPF IRET Message-ID: <861@cf-cm.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 09:47:12 GMT Reply-To: justin@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Justin Shuttleworth) Organization: University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, WALES, UK. Lines: 19 Recently I noticed in some Digital Research source assembly for the 80286 PUSHF ... CALL mypop ;get round 286 POPF problem ... mypop: IRET Where the CALL mypop achives what a (correctly functioning) POPF would. What is the problem? When does it occur? You may well have been over this before (sorry - new to this group) email me if this is so. Thanks Justin Shuttleworth /* no silly quote */ SHUTTLEWORTH@taff.cf.ac.uk justin@cm.cf.ac.uk