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Alright, I'm starting to get frustrated here. I've been using CSet/2 for a
couple of days now and I love it. However, there are no hardware port access
functions such as outp and inp. I really need these functions to do what I
am trying to do. So I thought that I would just write the port functions in
assembler, assemble them with TASM 3.0, and then link it all together. Well,
it all goes fine until I run the program. The program just exits. I have no
idea what the exit codes are (it is a full screen graphics program) and I
get no access violations or anything like that.

Someone hinted at the fact that the hardware ports cannot be accessed from
32bit protected mode. Is this true? Am I going to have to try to write a
ring 0 dll to get this done? And if so, what will be the performance benefits
of this. My program will eventually be doing a LOT of port access, and if it
has to call a dll a few million times, then won't that slow things down a lot?

Thanks for any help.

Keith

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