From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT acp3bf DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Porting Watcom 11.0 to djgpp
Date: 7 Jan 2000 18:52:01 GMT
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Charles Wood <c dot r dot wood @ worldnet.att.net.null> wrote:
> This is *NOT* fun, nor exciting, nor even moderately interesting to do.

Well, for as much as we know, you're always free to not do it, then :-^)

> Porting does encompass any other the things that make me Like to be a
> programmer.

Porting is work. Not a nice or funny hacking exercise, but tedious and
unrewarding, *hard* work, most of the time.

In the case at hand, the heart of the problem is that the code you're
working on is, by its very nature, strictly unportable. It relies on
compiler features like the (nonstandard) 'interrupt' keywords. If that
interrupt stuff is needed, that's a clear sign that this code is
*very* close to the hardware and O/S, where all portability becomes an
illusion --- even portability from one compiler to the other.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.