On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:26:02PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > > > > 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...) > > That's possible in C++ using operator overloading AFAIK.
Ah, right. Maybe we could switch to building with g++ just to get this feature ;-) > Did this commit fix serial support for LB? No, it fixed a bug affecting all platforms (i.e. both of them ;-)). For serial.mod to work on LB, we need the other patch (the machine.h one). -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
