Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 1999 16:56:43 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: some questions! (inline, egcs, and others!)
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On Thu, 5 Aug 1999 zidharta AT geocities DOT com wrote:

> gcc isnot written by DJ??

No.  DJ Delorie ported GCC to MS-DOS.  The compiler itself was written as 
is maintained by the GNU project.  See
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html.

> so what is DJGPP actually?

DJGPP includes a lot of ported GNU software, an ANSI- and Posix-compliant 
C library, and a set of special development tools.

> what kind of things can make inline cannot be proceed by gcc?

See the GCC documentation, it explains this issue in detail.

> > You can't do it in NASM, because gcc doesn't use NASM, and your inline
> > assembly would have to become part of the assembly output from gcc.
> > You *have* to use 'gas' assembly language, for this.
> 
> is "gas" asm language is the builtin AT&T asm that used by DJGPP ?

Yes, Gas is the GNU Assembler invoked by GCC to generate the object file.

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