Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:48:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: OpenDOS Kernel sources finally! :)
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> > How about the Arrowsoft free assembler the FreeDOS guys uses? For 32-bit, I
> Never used it. Is it good?

Don't know but it seems to interface well with the Micro-C compiler...
It's what the FreeDOS team uses with it...

> > expect we're all jumping on to DJGPP, right? And the FreeDOS guys already
> True, but not with AS onboard. It's not a good tool for general development. 
> It's been designed to be a back-end assembler for gcc and, as such, has 
> almost no error checking and advanced capabilities we need. NASM should be 
> fine, though.

Seems ok to me. Anyway, assembler should be kept to a strict minimum
IMHO... NASM will be ok to do the small asm parts...

> > have a 16-bit C development system running, though it is not really ANSI C
> > (not complete in some ways), but should do just fine to port assembler to C,
> > no? ;-)
> The Micro-C compiler, right?

Yes... It doesn't have typedefs, nor floats, but do we need that?

Pierre Phaneuf