Message-Id:	<m0wIAOP-000Fm3C@hn.planet.gen.nz>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 97 21:55 NZST
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	pierre AT tycho DOT com
From:	Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: Usage of directory entries
Cc:	opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com

>>> Again, that's not the size what matters. And I cannot use DJGPP for the
>>> same reason as stated above.
>> Hmm... We definately need a standard set of compilers :)
>
>And from what I've heard, the OpenDOS sources needs a gazillion compilers
>to build... Yes, definitely, we'd need some standard free compilers! I
>don't know of good 16-bit C compilers for free (in the GPL sense), but for
>assembler we could use NASM like Mark is already doing. One of the first
>thing that should be done when the OpenDOS sources are done would be to
>convert all the assembler sources we can find to NASM. Whew! Most of the
>DOS internals are in asm, so I guess there is a lot of code to translate!

What are they currently?  And how different is NASM? the difference of AT&T
-> Intel? or is it just formatting? :)

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