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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:15:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: -= ArkanoiD =- <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
cc: pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries
In-Reply-To: <ACF4gLpW27@mpak.convey.ru>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.970418161452.23833D-100000@hoth.amu.edu.pl>
Organization: PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins)
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:

> > 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),
> 
> btw gcc requires 32-bit machine to run but it *can* produce 16-bit or even
> 8-bit code - so why djgpp can not?
GCC as such *cannot* produce 16-bit code. Only on linux you have 16-bit tools
(assembler and linker). No version of gcc produces 16-bit code.

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