Added support for different size of TX and RX buffer sizes.

Added support for buffer sizes bigger than 256 bytes.
Added possibility to overrule the default size.

Added support for different size of TX and RX buffer sizes.
The default values remain the same. You can however specify a different
value for TX and RX buffer

Added possibility to overrule the default size.
If you want to have different values
define SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE and SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE on the command
line


Added support for buffer sizes bigger than 256 bytes.
Because of the possibility to change the size of the buffer sizes longer
than 256 must be supported.
The type of the indexes is decided upon the size of the buffers. So
there is no increase in program/data size when the buffers are smaller
than 257

Author: jantje

hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino/HardwareSerial.cpp

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ int HardwareSerial::read(void)
     return -1;
   } else {
     unsigned char c = _rx_buffer[_rx_buffer_tail];
-    _rx_buffer_tail = (BUFPOINTER)(_rx_buffer_tail + 1) % SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE;
+    _rx_buffer_tail = (rx_buffer_index_t)(_rx_buffer_tail + 1) % SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE;
     return c;
   }
 }
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ size_t HardwareSerial::write(uint8_t c)
     sbi(*_ucsra, TXC0);
     return 1;
   }
-  BUFPOINTER i = (_tx_buffer_head + 1) % SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE;
+  tx_buffer_index_t i = (_tx_buffer_head + 1) % SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE;
 
   // If the output buffer is full, there's nothing for it other than to 
   // wait for the interrupt handler to empty it a bit

hardware/arduino/avr/cores/arduino/HardwareSerial.h

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 // using a ring buffer (I think), in which head is the index of the location
 // to which to write the next incoming character and tail is the index of the
 // location from which to read.
-#if !(defined(SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE)&&defined(SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE))
+#if !(defined(SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE) && defined(SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE))
 #if (RAMEND < 1000)
 #define SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE 16
 #define SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE 16
@@ -41,10 +41,15 @@
 #define SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE 64
 #endif
 #endif
-#if (SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE>255) || (SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE>255)
-#define BUFPOINTER uint16_t
+#if (SERIAL_TX_BUFFER_SIZE>256)
+typedef uint16_t tx_buffer_index_t;
 #else
-#define BUFPOINTER uint8_t
+typedef uint8_t tx_buffer_index_t;
+#endif
+#if  (SERIAL_RX_BUFFER_SIZE>256)
+typedef uint16_t rx_buffer_index_t;
+#else
+typedef uint8_t rx_buffer_index_t;
 #endif
 
 // Define config for Serial.begin(baud, config);
@@ -85,10 +90,10 @@ class HardwareSerial : public Stream
     // Has any byte been written to the UART since begin()
     bool _written;
 
-    volatile BUFPOINTER _rx_buffer_head;
-    volatile BUFPOINTER _rx_buffer_tail;
-    volatile BUFPOINTER _tx_buffer_head;
-    volatile BUFPOINTER _tx_buffer_tail;
+    volatile rx_buffer_index_t _rx_buffer_head;
+    volatile rx_buffer_index_t _rx_buffer_tail;
+    volatile tx_buffer_index_t _tx_buffer_head;
+    volatile tx_buffer_index_t _tx_buffer_tail;
 
     // Don't put any members after these buffers, since only the first
     // 32 bytes of this struct can be accessed quickly using the ldd