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Date: | Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:40:46 +0200 |
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From: | "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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Yerrick on Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:00:45 GMT) | |
Subject: | Re: Watcom vs djgpp |
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> From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:00:45 GMT > > > - does the source use inline assembly? > > Don't the latest GCC and Binutils support Intel syntax? Gas does support Intel syntax, but it's tricky to make GCC invoke it with the appropriate switch. Anyway, that's not the problem I had in mind. Watcom has special pragmas frequently used with inline assembly, which will need to be converted to GCC equivalents. This is not easy. > > - how much of the code calls real-mode interrupts through int86 or > > int386 and their ilk, and expects them to transparently support > > buffers in protected-mode memory? > > __dpmi_int() That, and moving data to/from the transfer buffer.
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