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Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:56:37 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: BinUtils (miscellaneous)
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On 07/01/2011 09:47 AM, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Andris Pavenis<andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>  wrote:
>> On 06/30/2011 11:33 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>>     (Note to DJ: I know you're probably VERY busy, and I think even an
>>>> email or two to you bounced recently, ugh. So feel free to ignore
>>>> this. And yes I see your online compiler thingy hack is offline too,
>>>> heh.)
>>> Yeah, I upgraded delorie.com and a few things stopped working.  I need
>>> to build a newer compiler anyway, I think that one is still gcc 2.7 !
>> Not as I really use online compiler feature, but my cross-compiler
>> RPMs (all latest versions including not yet announced 4.6.1) is
>> expected to work without problems in Linux distribution installed
>> currently on delorie.com. So hopefully there is no need to build a
>> new cross-compiler as one can simply install RPM packages.
>>
>
> A little side tracking:
>
> Andris:  I'm using your src rpms as a reference for my own djgpp stuff.
> However I wonder what is the purpose of djcross-binutils-coffcode.diff ?
> It conditionally defines COFF_PAD_SECTION_HEADERS and compiles
> some extra code, however __MSDOS__ is never defined and the code
> is never compiled. Am I missing something?
>
>
It was intended to avoid putting random garbage from memory into executable.

You do not need to define __MSDOS__. DJGPP port of GCC does it for You

[andris AT ap2 ~]$ i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc -E -dD -x c /dev/null | grep MSDOS
#define __MSDOS 1
#define __MSDOS__ 1
#define MSDOS 1

Andris

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