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>#include <cyg/hal/hal_io.h>
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>On a real embedded target eCos interacts with the hardware by peeking
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and poking various registers, manipulating special regions of memory,
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and so on. The synthetic target does not access hardware directly.
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Linux system calls. The HAL package exports a number of functions
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which allow other packages, or even application code, to make these
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same system calls. However this facility must be used with care: any
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will only ever run on the synthetic target; that functionality is
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obviously not provided on any real hardware because there is no
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underlying Linux kernel to implement it.
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I/O emulation. This subset can be extended fairly easily if necessary.
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All of the available calls, plus associated data structures and
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macros, are defined in the header file <TT
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> and provide a function with that name.
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>In most cases the functions provided by the synthetic target behave as
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per the documentation for the Linux system calls, and section 2 of the
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important difference: typically the documentation will say that a
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that number corresponding to the error code; usually it is the C
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like the C library, eCos makes use of the new one because it provides
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the appropriate functionality. In an attempt to reduce confusion the
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