Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 19:57:33 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Alpha snapshot 970831
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Here's some comments on that snapshot.  I'm sending the patches in 
separate messages.

	1) go32-v2 should have its version bumped to 2.02 in the blurb it 
prints when invoked with no arguments.

	2) src/docs/wc202.txi sometimes use @code{func()}, which I think 
is incorrect, because it looks like a call to func with no arguments.  
@code{func} is how it should be written, as it is in some of the places 
and in the rest of the docs.

	3) I think we should change the library functions which call
dpmi_allocate_dos_memory to call the DOS function via __dpmi_int, 
and the same for free_dos_memory, because programs that call the free 
function will crash on NT if they use the DPMI call.  There are only a 
couple or so such functions, so this shouldn't be too hard.

	4) README.1ST is the old version.  I thought I saw somebody 
posting an updated version to the news group (after DJ has provoked him); 
why not use it?

Also, the list of files in README doesn't include the new zoneinfo zip.

	5) Are we going to add the new headers and functions as per the 
ANSI C Addendum (<iso646.h>, <wchar.h>, <wctype.h>)?

	6) What do people think about making `printf' work (through a BIOS
call) in graphics modes?  Borland obviously does this, and it helps in
debugging graphics programs.  It is a matter of simple change in
`doprint', but I wanted to hear opinions before submitting diffs. 

	7) When both "foo" and "foo.exe" exist in the current directory, 
``spawnv("foo")'' invokes "foo" rather than "foo.exe".  This is 
inconsistent with `spawnvp' which finds "foo.exe" first.  Is this 
intentional or a bug?  (One situation when this does matter is if you 
have stubedited foo.exe to have non-default stack or transfer buffer 
size.)