Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 2009 03:17:08 +0100 (BST) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: [Question] x86,APIC: In apicdef.h dfr,svr,...... shouldn't be const? |
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On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Rakib Mullick wrote:
> Hello guys, Intel System programmers guide says - dfr, svr, esr - this > registers should be readonly. So shouldn't they use const? Or is it > anything else?
All the three have meaningful semantics on writes at least on some versions of the APIC (they either have writable fields or trigger side effects on writes). It looks like your documentation is wrong (not unheard of with Intel).
Maciej
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