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John_Keelung

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[Help]error:'outportb' was not declared in this scope...
« on: January 26, 2011, 10:44:10 am »
Hello all elite CodeBlockers and I got a silly problem ><

I am recently studying C++ with this lovely CodeBlock/MingGW myself and playing around with the watchdog timer register.
Somehow I meet some issue on the outputb, which used to work on my old C compiler.

The problem it shows an error message  >D:\Study\C_C++\CodeBlocks\WDT\main.cpp:13: error: 'outportb' was not declared in this scope

Why is it not in the scope? Following is my code. Hope anyone can help me out here >< 

Maybe I am missing something important here?


#include <stdio.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <conio.h>


#define SUPERIO_PORT 0x2E
#define WDT_SET   0xF5
#define WDT_VALUE 0xF6

int main()
{
        //Enter SuperIO Configuration
        outportb(SUPERIO_PORT, 0x87);
        outportb(SUPERIO_PORT, 0x87);

        //Set LDN
        outportb(SUPERIO_PORT,0x07);
        outportb(SUPERIO_PORT+1 ,0x08);

        //Set WDT setting
        outportb(WDT_SET,0x04);       //Use the second to come down
                                      //If choose the Minute, change value to 0x0C

        //Set WDT sec/min
        outportb(WDT_VALUE,0x05);     //Set 5 seconds

        return 0;

}


Have a great day all!  :)

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Re: [Help]error:'outportb' was not declared in this scope...
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2011, 10:52:16 am »
Because this is not DOS and you (the programmer) do not have direct access to the hardware.
BTW: this is a compiler/os/kernel question and you should ask somewhere else.
(most of the time I ignore long posts)
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