AW: [ECOS] Broken macro definitions in hal_io.h

[Koeller, T.]

Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 13:03, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the definitions for HAL_READ_UINT32_STRING and 
> HAL_WRITE_UINT32_STRING
> > in hal/arm/arch/current/include/hal_io.h are broken. Here's 
> a patch to fix this:
> > 
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out!
> 
> Actually, there was more wrong than just this.  We 
> [obviously] took the 
> time to develop and define these macros, but they've never found much
> use, thus they were broken from day 1.
> 

I assumed these maros were intended to transfer data between a buffer in
memory and a single I/O register (because that was what I wanted to use
them for). Well, seems I was wrong. That would also be a useful function,
however.

Thomas
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