From: Donald Jeff Dionne <jeff AT RyeHam DOT ee DOT ryerson DOT ca>
Message-Id: <199705121700.RAA00462@RyeHam.ee.ryerson.ca>
Subject: Re: OpenDOS Kernel sources finally! :) 
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:00:39 +0000 (GMT)
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> On Tue, 6 May 1997, Donald Jeff Dionne wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, while bcc runs on Linux and produces 16-bit code, we'd rather develop
> > > under DOS, right? ;-)
> > 
> > Ok, so compile bcc and friends under DJGPP.  Nothing hard about that.
> > Someone will likely need to make a thing to produce .COM files out of
> > whatever commes out of bcc's as and ld, but that's not hard.
> 
> Well, porting a compiler is more than a recompile... We need to have a
> 16-bit libc...

Nonesense.  Porting the compiler is quite likely trivial in this case
if it's not been done already.  You generally don't need a libc for kernel
code anyway, and even if you do, there's lots of free stuff from which to
assemble a minimal one from.

This is a _real_ C compiler, not a toy like those Dunfield things
ppl are suggesting.  The Linux8086 ppl are/have been working on the
optimizer and all sorts of stuff, I'd expect this thing to be a lot closer
to what you're looking for than anything else.

Jeff.

> 
> Pierre Phaneuf
> 
>