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14 years ago

alt_getchar returning wrong value

int main() { int noia = 0; alt_putstr("Proc 2!\n"); /* get the mutex device handle */ alt_mutex_dev* mutex = altera_avalon_mutex_open( "/dev/mutex" ); /* acquire the mutex, setting the v...
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14 years ago

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It's another problem, seems like my buffer has already some info on it. I don't type anything and some value appear in the alt_getchar, like 1a, 2b etc.

Thanks for your info thought :)

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If your problem is simply with chars already stored in buffer, what you commonly do in C is putting a while (getchar() != EOF); loop before starting.

EOF is usually the portable version of the -1 result value suggested by dsl.