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Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/08/27/11:57:44

Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:56:01 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199808271456.KAA21926@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC: george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980827140450.6326H-100000@is> (message from Eli
Zaretskii on Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:05:12 +0300 (IDT))
Subject: Re: Patch to mkdoc and re: portability information

> Why is it important for the user to know whether a function goes
> directly to DOS, anyway?

It's not.  I'm just saying that when a function seems to match a dos
call, dos compilers often just call it directly rather than try (as
djgpp does) to adhere to some standard.  Because of this, dos
programmers would think it unusual do not call the dos call directly.

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