On 5/18/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you please implement a ports unit for Windows then?
This requires writing a Device Driver for NT.... and later you need to take it with your executable somehow.
The last thing we need is people to start using OS specific code.
OS specific code is not a devil. Sometimes it's necessary. Ports alone won't work on linux also, by the way. You also need to call ioperm and run your software as root. (some docs say you need to do one or the other, but I tested with real hardware, and it never worked unless I did both). To make ports work on linux without ioperm you would need to make the ioperm call inside ports getter and setter methods, which can be significant overhead for software that need to reliably access hardware every microsecond for example. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
