ARM9 UART receive register not flushing

Hi there,

I've succesfully set up my UART on my MCB-STR9 eval board.

However, when I'm reading a recieved character from the UART DR register it holds that character (when fifo is not enabled!)

when the UART fifo is enabled, after 16 characters it holds that character (and goes into the loop because my software thinks there is a new character everytime I check the DR register)

My ECHO function is:

u8 RxData;

while(1)
{
RxData = UARTx->DR;
if(RxData != 0)UARTx->DR = RxData;
}

My question is: Am I doing something wrong with reading the incoming characters?

Thanks!