fn _process_pending_work()Expand description
process_work and process_pending_work processes work posted by thread_safe_callback and realtime_event. These process work functions are typically called when embedding Simics in another application to allow periodic and asynchronous Simics work to run while the simulation is not advancing. process_pending_work runs all work that has been queued up since the last call and returns immediately after.
process_work is similar but waits for new work to arrive. Each time some work has been processed, the supplied done callback is called with done_data as its only argument. A return value of 1 tells process_work to stop processing work and return control to the caller again while 0 tells it to continue.
The done predicate is only evaluated between callbacks that are run in Global Context, that is, not registered with the run_in_thread parameter set).
The process work functions return -1 if the user has pressed the interrupt key before or while they were running, provided that the simulator core was initialized to catch signals. Otherwise the return value is 0.
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Global Context