> I haven't done my homework, but I assume the code behind readb use inline
> assembly and not C on most platforms?
It depends on the platform. Its all nicely wrapped in platform specific
macros and using things like volatile to get the right results. Whatever
gcc invents we can cope with for a weird port because we can make them asm
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