Re: grub2 ChangeLog term/i386/pc/serial.c

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:35:17PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > grub_inb() and grub_outb() are based on the inb()/outb() implementation
> > from glibc headers, so I kept the same arguments for consistency.
> 
> I see... Once again inconsistency introduced by Unix folks... as AT&T
> assembler wouldn't be enough, they then poisons C libs too... oh well...
> another thing to try to keep in mind...

I always thought the Right Way to do this would be implement it in GCC,
so that you can do things like:

  __some_magic__(PORT_ADDR) |= 0x80;

which is much more beatufil than either of:

  outb (PORT_ADDR, inb (PORT_ADDR) | 0x80);

  outb (inb (PORT_ADDR) | 0x80, PORT_ADDR);

don't you think?

(now if someone is bored and takes my suggestion to gcc-patches, that'd make
my day...)

-- 
Robert Millan

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