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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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To: Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net>
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 14:53:19 +0100
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Once upon a time (on  2 May 97 at 10:47) Gene Buckle said:

> Matthias, Caldera _thought_ Novell had given them the latest source tree
> until I pointed out to Roger that what they had was totally unpatched code. 
> To say the least he was very pissed.  I don't know yet if Novell has
> supplied Caldera with the new sources.  This is just one of many things that
> Novell has pulled on Caldera during this process.
> 
> > Also I would like to do some size optimizations, and if I find enough 
> 
> You might want to see if you can get it to build with NASM in Intel mode. If
> memory serves, NASM will generate 16 bit code.
As much as I like NASM, I don't recommend it for this task yet. I am 
writing an LFN driver for OpenDOS and I had to create a big set of CPP 
macros to enable compilation of the source in TASM mode (for debugging) 
and in NASM for release. It's because NASM lacks *any* debugging capabilities 
as for now. I have started to add debugging support to the OBJ format, but I 
still cannot find any specification of the Borland/CodeView debugging 
information. If anyone is in possesion of such an information, or knows where 
to get it (for free, please ;-)) I will be very glad to learn it!

I have also started to convert IBMBIO.COM sources to NASM format, but as 
Matthias is applying the patches, I will wait till it's read and till NASM 
will have the full debugging info.
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