Re: question on inw/ouw vs readw/writew

Philip Blundell (pb@nexus.co.uk)
Fri, 07 May 1999 15:33:53 +0100

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>so my question is: why wouldn't inw/outw work where readw/writew
>would?

inw and outw are for I/O ports. readw and writew are for memory-mapped
devices. The two address spaces are completely separate.

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