Message-Id: <199705081146.NAA27838@grendel.sylaba.poznan.pl>
Comments: Authenticated sender is <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization: PPP (Pesticide Powered Pumpkins)
To: pierre AT tycho DOT com
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 13:48:38 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Subject: Re: OpenDOS Kernel sources finally! :)
Reply-to: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
CC: OpenDOS Developer Mailing List <opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com>
References: <199705060826 DOT KAA22478 AT grendel DOT sylaba DOT poznan DOT pl>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970506083936.19030B-100000@55-174.hy.cgocable.ca>
Precedence: bulk

Once upon a time (on  6 May 97 at 8:52) Pierre Phaneuf said:

> > You cannot just recompile COMMAND.COM and several other utilities under
> > DJGPP and expect it to work. COMMAND.COM uses dozens of hacks to talk to
> > the DOS kernel, hacks which wouldn't work from 32-bits. The same applies
> > to the kernel - have you seen the sources? If you have, then you know what
> > I'm talking about.
> 
> DJGPP + NASM (or GAS or whatever) would do very well for 32-bit code, but as
> DJGPP cannot do 16-bit real-mode, we've got to find a free C compiler for
> DOS for OpenDOS/16! I didn't check LCC more when I saw that it was 32-bit
> itself. We need a compiler that runs on less than 386.
Exactly. And, unfortunately, the free compilers list does not contain any 
16-bit tools.

> Micro-C anyone? It's going to be for porting from ASM anyway...
As we heard, Micro-C requires a MASM or compatible assembler - definitely not 
good...
++++++++++ 
Well I'm out in a car, and it's just full of stupid girls, and
I've forgotten how to speak, and I just can't remember a word
And my eyes feel like they're bursting, and they're splitting
like plums, and I'm writhing, and I'm writhing, and I'm writhing
in the snakepit.
----------