From: Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM>
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Subject: Re: LD errors compiling source from gnupg-1.0.1.tar.gz
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 05:44:53 GMT
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 05:44:53 GMT
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:54:19 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

>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.

Correlated.  Read on:

>DJGPP is one of the very few environments where the underscores
>are prepended by the compiler (for historical reasons).

And one of the very few environments (on DOS at least)
that uses AT&T syntax.  Currently, AT&T + DOS = DJGPP.

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

Cool!  Now NASM finally has some competition.

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