Re: Help: accessing Bios param from Ada

[Alain Senjean <senjean@club-internet.fr>]

Jerry van Dijk wrote:
> 
> Using a windows compiler, you have, in the Win32 environment, no access to
> this memory, you need to either use a DOS compiler or write/get an Win9X/NT
> device driver for this. This is not Ada related but a feature of the OS you
> are using.
> 
> :    Is there any defined service with parameters like (segment, offset, size,
> : value) for accessing HW ports like inportb, outportb in C ?
> 
> No, the I/O ports are not in the memory address space. And again, you have
> no access to them from a user program.
> 
I don't understand because I am defining a Dos Ada program at project level,
so Win32 restriction should not apply (Dos windowed).

Otherwise, I should get identical limitation for the C model.

A. SENJEAN