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| author | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 2006-12-13 12:35:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com> | 2006-12-13 12:35:01 +0000 |
| commit | 71ce7e75862d2b6387e2099a84bbeb81c3ea1488 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ca706f08c2c0d8cf7b8a88d7c0da394e34ee061 /c | |
| parent | 2006-12-13 Ralf Corsépius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org> (diff) | |
| download | rtems-71ce7e75862d2b6387e2099a84bbeb81c3ea1488.tar.bz2 | |
2006-12-13 Alexey Shamrin <shamrin@gmail.com>
PR 1189/bsps
* console/outch.c: If you print a character with the code larger than
127 (extended ASCII) to the VGA console, then it blinks. The reason:
char == signed char, so such characters get represented by negative
numbers. The sign bit then goes to attribute byte, resulting in the
blinking.
Diffstat (limited to 'c')
| -rw-r--r-- | c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/ChangeLog | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/console/outch.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/ChangeLog b/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/ChangeLog index 24e882f2d0..6f21c732ef 100644 --- a/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/ChangeLog +++ b/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2006-12-13 Alexey Shamrin <shamrin@gmail.com> + + PR 1189/bsps + * console/outch.c: If you print a character with the code larger than + 127 (extended ASCII) to the VGA console, then it blinks. The reason: + char == signed char, so such characters get represented by negative + numbers. The sign bit then goes to attribute byte, resulting in the + blinking. + 2006-12-02 Ralf Corsépius <ralf.corsepius@rtems.org> * configure.ac: New BUG-REPORT address. diff --git a/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/console/outch.c b/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/console/outch.c index 7c7371b70b..1ef9a54689 100644 --- a/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/console/outch.c +++ b/c/src/lib/libbsp/i386/pc386/console/outch.c @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ videoPutChar(char car) return; } default: { - *pt_bitmap = car | attribute; + *pt_bitmap = (unsigned char)car | attribute; advanceCursor(); return; } |