speakup-r functionality

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

Which synth do you use?

Thanks,
Okash

> On 29 May 2017, at 13:08, John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> 
> OK, I will test as soon as I can.
> 
> On Mon, 29 May 2017 05:50:33 -0400,
> Okash Khawaja wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 06:38:39PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
>>> I just have one question -- how did it work with the old serial i/o
>>> system?
>> In main.c, handle_cursor_read_all calls spk_get_index_count which calls
>> spk_ttyio_in_nowait or spk_serial_in_nowait depending on whether TTY or
>> old serial i/o is in use. So the difference is in spk_serial_in_nowait
>> as the layers above that are identical. spk_serial_in_nowait returns 0
>> when there is no data on rx. spk_ttyio_in_nowait immitates that but due
>> to the signedness bug, it was returning 0xff instead of 0 when there
>> is no data.
>> 
>> With the fix, now both serial i/o and TTY stacks  should have same
>> behaviour.
> 
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