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#ifndef __TINY_CTX_H__
#define __TINY_CTX_H__

#include <stdint.h>

#include <cpu/common.h>

/* execute target code with a given 16-bit cpu state at given offset.
 * This works in practice by first setting up a timer, so that we can
 * timeout the code we're calling.
 *
 * Exec happens just by dropping back to 16-bit real-mode,
 * loading registers and segments from given tgt_ctx, and finally doing
 *
 * jmp tgt_ctx->segments.cs:tgt_offset
 *
 * @param cpu_state_16b *tgt_cxt -- CPU context to use
 * @param uint16_t tgt_offset    -- Target offset for executing our code
 */
void exec_in_ctx16(cpu_state_16b *tgt_ctx, uint16_t tgt_offset);

#endif