From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: LD errors compiling source from gnupg-1.0.1.tar.gz
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:54:19 +0200
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> >> Is "ifdef DOS appropriate?
> >
> >No, you should use "#ifdef __DJGPP__".  This is specific to the DJGPP
> >configuration, someone else could come up with a DOS compiler that
> >doesn't prepend underscores.
> 
> What other DOS compilers use Gas-backward AT&T assembly?

The issue wasn't AT&T assembly style, the issue was underscores in external
symbols declared by C code.  DJGPP is one of the very few environments where
the underscores are prepended by the compiler (for historical reasons).

Besides, the next release of Gas will support Intel style as well (it already
works in the development sources).