C++ ctors, cdtest.exe, printf and termios oh my!

[rdasilva at connecttel.com (Rosimildo DaSilva)]

From: Tony R. Ambardar <tonya at ece.ubc.ca>
To: joel at oarcorp.com <joel at oarcorp.com>
Cc: rtems-snapshots at oarcorp.com <rtems-snapshots at oarcorp.com>; Erik Ivanenko
<erik.ivanenko at utoronto.ca>; Rosimildo da Silva <rdasilva at connecttel.com>
Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: C++ ctors, cdtest.exe, printf and termios oh my!


>This is what I originally suspected. However, I believe Rosimildo and Erik
>have both successfully run cdtest.exe using interrupt-driven console I/O.
>Hence my confusion...
>
>Is this true, Erik, Rosimildo?
>
>I haven't looked closely before, so how does one turn on polling for
>general I/O in the x86 BSP's?
>


Yes, I have ran cdtest.exe on my PC.  No problems.

There is one catch there. On PC386, printf() does not generates any
interrupts. It writes directly to the video memory.
Interrupts only for the keyboard. That's why we have not see the
problem on PC386 before.

Rosimildo.