Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/04/20:48:30
Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>
> El día Sun, 2 May 1999 11:32:56 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> escribió:
>
> >
> >On Sat, 1 May 1999, Alexander_Pankov wrote:
> >
> >> How to compile with DJGPP exe without extender?
> >
> >DJGPP-compiled programs don't include any extender.
>
> What is go32, then?
>
> DJGPP compiled programs don't use an *external * extender (like dos4gw
> and others), but they use go32, which is itself a built-in DOS
> extender.
Not in v2.x, they don't.
go32 was indeed a DOS extender, used for v1.x. It could be "internal"
(merged with the executable) or "external" (a separate file), but was
always needed. In v2.x it is gone; all protected-mode stuff is handled
through DPMI.
There are still some functions with `_go32' names for historical
reasons, but they're now implemented in terms of DPMI, and go32.exe is
gone.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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