[fpc-pascal] x86.pp and oldlinux.pp

[Gustavo Enrique Jimenez]

2009/11/3 Holger Bruns <holger.bruns at gmx.net>:
> Jonas Maebe schrieb:
>>
>> And regarding your later remark about FPC only being usable as root: it's
>> the Linux kernel that only allows direct port access by root. Please stop
>> blaming every single one of your problems on the compiler or the RTL.
>
> Under the bottom line, the result is just the same. You need to become a
> superuser on a linux system, if you want to compile source code for
> accessing ports directly, regardless of the compiler or any other tool. This
> is not blaming your software as faulty, it's just a remark on a linux
> restriction. Secondly, having problems with a programming language is not a
> sign for a bad compiler. One can misunderstand some expressions, can produce
> errors, needs to learn more about programming. I do not blame your work, I
> appreciate it instead, and I am using fpc. I am pretty sure, the longer I
> work with it, the more I shall become familiar with it. Todays pascal is far
> more advanced than turbo pascal from Borland or UCSD pascal on the old Apple
> II, and now I have to learn pascal just as a programming language, which I
> would see the first time in my life.
>
> Holger

If you need to be root to run or compile your program, then you don't
understand the underlying operative system. Please, take a look at how
devices works in linux, or take a look at this
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2114 . Linux is not DOS, you can't
just write to ports.

Accessing serial ports in linux could be as simple as to write/read
to/from /dev/ttySx . You don't need io ports. For a multiplatform
solution, use synapsis/synaser.

Gustavo

ps: Excuse my english. Helping you is very hard: you don't listen.