From: "Tom St Denis" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <3b580b15$0$274$bb624dac AT diablo DOT uninet DOT ee> <3b581d0d$0$271$bb624dac AT diablo DOT uninet DOT ee> Subject: Re: pokeb peekb Lines: 21 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:45:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.112.8.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT home DOT net X-Trace: news3.rdc1.on.home.com 995633101 24.112.8.23 (Fri, 20 Jul 2001 05:45:01 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 05:45:01 PDT Organization: Excite AT Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Tonu Aas" wrote in message news:3b581d0d$0$271$bb624dac AT diablo DOT uninet DOT ee... > > I doubt that's 50 cycles though. Recall that the C lib startup code is > > probably around a 1000 cycles. what you want is some trivial asm program > > like: ... > > 3) what , if it is required to compile on a large variety of compilers ??? > > I think that it's not possible to satisfy all 3 points. > But maye it is ? Recall that not all C compliant platforms have a display to begin with. Anyways this is a stupid topic. I'd rather talk about my toes or something. tom