Re: PATCH: uncripple winword 2000

[Andreas Mohr]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:23:17PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Make Winword 2000 work again.
>
> I do not know, why it does outb $al,0x70, inb 0x71, $al ...
>
> And I am _afraid_ to ask.

Why, that's perfectly ok... Just imagine your feeling if it also did:
outb $al,0x70, outb al, 0x71

;-))

That only goes to show what a crappy piece of !@#$@$% Winword 2000 is...
> -
>    if (INSTR_EmulateInstruction( epointers->ExceptionRecord, epointers->ContextRecord) == ExceptionContinueExecution)
> -
> return EXCEPTION_CONTINUE_EXECUTION;

BTW: Thanks!! This will most certainly fix my JTAG parallel port
flashing tool (I already reported it, but nobody fixed it,
and the result of "time * need" was too low...).