BF592 not reaching main after SPORT interrupt

I am setting up SPORT0 Interrupts as such:

void Init_Interrupts(void)

{

  *pSIC_IMASK0 |= IRQ_DMA2 | IRQ_DMA1;

  *pSIC_IAR1   |= 0xfffff23f ;

  register_handler(ik_ivg9, SPORT0_Tx_ISR);

  register_handler(ik_ivg10, SPORT0_Rx_ISR);

  *pIMASK      |= EVT_IVG9 | EVT_IVG10;

  ssync();

}

Then later I enable

void SPORT0_Enable(void)

{

  *pSPORT0_TCR1   |= TSPEN ;

// *pSPORT0_RCR1   |= RSPEN;

  ssync();

}

and it correctly interrupts to this routine. However while watching registers the DMA2_IRQ_STATUS register never toggles after it gets to the end of this isr, it steps to the last ssync() in the enable function above and interrupts again.

EX_INTERRUPT_HANDLER(SPORT0_Tx_ISR)

{

  *pDMA2_IRQ_STATUS |= 0x0001;

  ssync();

  *pSPORT0_TX16 = 0xafaf;

}

trying to do some processing in main() and it will not reach outside the enable and interrupt ISR