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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:02:24 +0100
From: Mark Stolz <mstolz AT esmertec DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update of DJGPP port of GCC-3.0.3
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:29:45 +0100
> > From: Mark Stolz <mstolz AT esmertec DOT com>
> >
> > Agreed. The GCJ docs discuss porting the thread layer, the file handling
> > layer, and the signal handling layer. Of these, I think that threading and
> > signal support would be the most challenging since DOS doesn't provide support
> > for either (there might also be some DPMI issues, too).
> 
> DJGPP does support signals.  Do we really need them supported by DOS?

I don't know. However, if DJGPP supports signals, this should be sufficient.
Let me qualify all this. At this point I have *no* experience using DJGPP
and don't know much about it, aside from what I've read in the online faq
and docs.

--Mark