[fpc-pascal] accessing hardware ports in FPC

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Tue, 22 May 2007, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

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> OS specific code is not a devil. Sometimes it's necessary. Ports alone
> won't work on linux also, by the way.

Even if extra calls are needed, like ioperm, the existance of a hardware =

serial port unit, ignoring the existance of ioperm, can be very usefull =

for a Linux programmer, as long as it uses the portable port[] array.
An ioperm call is easily added to any program.

It is the same for WinNT, while the programmer might have to do extra =

tricks, existing code can be very valueable for him.

Needless to say I don't recommend people driving hardware by port access, =

but some people feel/have the need to. There is no need why such code =

should be different on WinNT than on Win95; FPC's task is to hide such =

differences from the user.

Dani=EBl