Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/08/23/14:20:29
> I unpacked gcc260rm.zip thinking it was version 2.6.0 of GNU C/C++. It
> appears that this is not the case at all. This is a new driver program with
> source? Why is there no description of what this is? Why is it in a
> separate utils directory. Is it terribly significant that it is real mode?
> Perhaps this makes it faster?
According to README.DOC, the real mode gcc is needed in certain environments
such as OS/2 and NT. I can confirm that, at least for previous releases,
OS/2 required the real-mode gcc. It appears that the protected mode gcc
consumes some resource and eventually crashes at least the window it is
running in. I don't think anybody understands exactly what the problem is,
but fixing it is low priority since the only drawback of the work-around is
that you don't have a "pure" gnu system.
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