Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/08/11/13:12:25
mat AT ardi DOT com (Mat Hostetter) writes:
>Interestingly, gzip is GPL'd, but "inflate.c" in the gzip distribution
>is prefaced with:
>/* inflate.c -- Not copyrighted 1992 by Mark Adler
> version c10p1, 10 January 1993 */
>/* You can do whatever you like with this source file, though I would
> prefer that if you modify it and redistribute it that you include
> comments to that effect with your name and the date. Thank you.
> [The history has been moved to the file ChangeLog.]
> */
>Rewriting this code in djasm would be tough. It would be nice to be
>able to link this C code into the executable (uncompressed of course),
>and let it uncompress the rest of the binary from protected mode.
We can link 32 bit code generated by gcc into the stub. (djasm can
link-in coff object files.) I don't see anything very difficult in
this approach, just more work as usual.
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