console.h

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// console.h 
//      Data structures to simulate the behavior of a terminal
//      I/O device.  A terminal has two parts -- a keyboard input,
//      and a display output, each of which produces/accepts 
//      characters sequentially.
//
//      The console hardware device is asynchronous.  When a character is
//      written to the device, the routine returns immediately, and an 
//      interrupt handler is called later when the I/O completes.
//      For reads, an interrupt handler is called when a character arrives. 
//
//      The user of the device can specify the routines to be called when 
//      the read/write interrupts occur.  There is a separate interrupt
//      for read and write, and the device is "duplex" -- a character
//      can be outgoing and incoming at the same time.
//
//  DO NOT CHANGE -- part of the machine emulation
//
// Copyright (c) 1992-1993 The Regents of the University of California.
// All rights reserved.  See copyright.h for copyright notice and limitation 
// of liability and disclaimer of warranty provisions.

#ifndef CONSOLE_H
#define CONSOLE_H

#include "copyright.h"
#include "utility.h"

// The following class defines a hardware console device.
// Input and output to the device is simulated by reading 
// and writing to UNIX files ("readFile" and "writeFile").
//
// Since the device is asynchronous, the interrupt handler "readAvail" 
// is called when a character has arrived, ready to be read in.
// The interrupt handler "writeDone" is called when an output character 
// has been "put", so that the next character can be written.

class Console {
  public:
    Console(char *readFile, char *writeFile, VoidFunctionPtr readAvail, 
        VoidFunctionPtr writeDone, int callArg);
                                // initialize the hardware console device
    ~Console();                 // clean up console emulation

// external interface -- Nachos kernel code can call these
    void PutChar(char ch);      // Write "ch" to the console display, 
                                // and return immediately.  "writeHandler" 
                                // is called when the I/O completes. 

    char GetChar();             // Poll the console input.  If a char is 
                                // available, return it.  Otherwise, return EOF.
                                // "readHandler" is called whenever there is 
                                // a char to be gotten

// internal emulation routines -- DO NOT call these. 
    void WriteDone();           // internal routines to signal I/O completion
    void CheckCharAvail();

  private:
    int readFileNo;                     // UNIX file emulating the keyboard 
    int writeFileNo;                    // UNIX file emulating the display
    VoidFunctionPtr writeHandler;       // Interrupt handler to call when 
                                        // the PutChar I/O completes
    VoidFunctionPtr readHandler;        // Interrupt handler to call when 
                                        // a character arrives from the keyboard
    int handlerArg;                     // argument to be passed to the 
                                        // interrupt handlers
    bool putBusy;                       // Is a PutChar operation in progress?
                                        // If so, you can't do another one!
    char incoming;                      // Contains the character to be read,
                                        // if there is one available. 
                                        // Otherwise contains EOF.
};

#endif // CONSOLE_H

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