Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/12/31/17:15:39
>Does this mean that if I were to use djgpp in a commercial product, I would
>have the options of
> 1. Use copy/b or equivalent to combine the files and pay royalties
Correct.
>or 2. Have my customer do this operation as part of the installation and
> not pay royalties?
Close - you use "aout2exe" and ship go32.exe (with sources) as a
separate executable that the customer simply puts in their path - much
like djgpp binaries work.
>(I haven't done anything with djgpp since around version 1.04. At that time,
>djgpp gave me a 4x performance boost in a time-consuming sort, but did not
>support some DOS interrupts which I need to use and did not allow recovery
>when a memory allocation failed because the swap disk was full. My
>understanding from messages on this list is that the later is still true, and
>it just isn't acceptable in commercial software.)
Malloc still never returns NULL. Many more DOS interrupts have been
supported, though.
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