creation by GCC-2.6.3. Casting pointers to unsigned char
to volatile pointers to unsigned char seemed to produce
better results on the ia32 architecture with old versions
of GCC.
The current FreeBSD system compiler GCC-3.2.1 emits
better sign extension code for non-volatile variables:
volatile char c;
int i = c;
is compiled to:
...
movb -1(%ebp), %al
movbsl %al, %eax
movl %eax, -8(%ebp)
...
char c;
int i = c;
is compiled to:
...
movbsl -1(%ebp), %eax
movl %eax, -8(%ebp)
...
The same holds for zero-extension of dereferenced pointers
to volatile unsigned char.
When compiled on alpha or sparc64, the code produced for the
two examples above does not differ.
It may cause misterious chars appearse in the middle of the scrolled lines.
The bug trigger: enter
grep P_32 /usr/include/*.h
command and see misterious "db.\" filename.
- Split terminal emulation code from the main part of the driver so
that we can have alternative terminal emulator modules if we like in
the future. (We are not quite there yet, though.)
- Put sysmouse related code in a separate file, thus, simplifying the
main part of the driver.
As some files are added to the source tree, you need to run config(8)
before you compile a new kernel next time.
You shouldn't see any functional change by this commit; this is only
internal code reorganization.
