From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Why not build in inline 80x86 assembly, like in borland C
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:09:05 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Genady Beryozkin wrote:
> 
> > I hope to find some time to look in the sources . Will they compile with
> > BCC ?
> 
> I doubt that.  Don't even try with 16-bit BCC, but even 32-bit
> compiler will have grave problems with some header files (like
> unistd.h) which DOS compilers usually don't have.  Unix software is
> a nightmare to port to DOS with any compiler but DJGPP.

Maybe with the possible exception of emgcc, another gcc port
to DOS and OS/2 (if anyone still remembers OS/2 ;-)
I'd rather say a nightmare with any compiler but gcc.
BTW, the other way round is nearly just as easy, if you stick 
to some conventions...

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Ciao
Tom

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