Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:38:53 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Message-Id: <199708150938.MAA24400@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: generating 16-bit code (286 and lower)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
In-Reply-To: <m0wyH1t-000S1mC@inti.edu.ar>
Organization: University of Helsinki
Precedence: bulk

In article <m0wyH1t-000S1mC AT inti DOT edu DOT ar> you wrote:
: YES is possible. But takes TOO MUCH work. You must write the machine 
: description for GCC and rewrite a lot of the DJGPP libc. So even when is 
: possible I think no body will do that.

Is there any need to do all that? As far as I see it, we only need 16-bit GCC
for programs that must be in 16-bit code. Only such program I know of is
CWSDPMI, but there may be others. However, it should be possible to compile
such programs even without any C library, as long as we have working compiler,
assembler, and linker. Would it be too much work to write these?

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/