In our previous episode, Holger Bruns said: > > The only way to get rid of this problem is a direct port access. But > direct port access is only possible for the first 200 port addresses. A > "port" array is not yet implemented, and the required higher port > addresses are strictly ruled out from every use through compiled fpc > programs. I do not understand this harsh policy. And I have no idea to > rule this policy out. If there is any possibility to get access to all > ports on the system without access error messages, please let me know. > If I need to alter the compiler, is there a patch available? Or should I > use gcc rather than fpc to match my ideas? > > The real sad thing is, that one cannot produce software for Linux, based > on the restricted free pascal compiler. I am really disappointed.
WHere is this limitation? I'm not aware that FPC has a limitation that GCC hasn't. More probably it is an OS limitation, or do you need to ask permission for higher portnumbers with ioperm. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
