Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 08:26:04 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Allegro bank switching -- Please read
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On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, A. Sinan Unur wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii said:
> 
>> " Will somebody with a few minutes to spare please change these two
>> offending lines in Allegro distribution and upload the fixed zip file to
>> DJ's /incoming directory?  Please??  This threatens to become a FAQ, but
>> I'm too ashamed to put it there, since it's a ridiculous problem.  
>> Thanks.
> 
> eli, i don't understand your attitude ...

I don't have any attitude, unless wanting to improve DJGPP can be called 
``attitude''.

Sorry, I thought I made myself clear enough, and in small words, but I 
will rephrase.  The problem with compiling Allegro appeared as result of 
upgrading DJGPP to Binutils 2.7, where the assembler is less tolerant to 
operand/instruction mismatches.  The fix to Allegro is trivial, but we 
are out of luck because its author isn't available.  I think it's a shame 
that such a simple problem doesn't get solved, especially since it bugs 
so many people (Allegro is a very popular package).  So I've asked for a 
volunteer to make this simple patch and submit it to DJ Delorie so that 
Allegro distribution on SimTel could be updated.  If nobody can invest 
that much in improving DJGPP (rather than having the flood of questions 
about this same problem), then that's too bad, but so be it.