Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 92 09:42:22 EST
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT athena DOT ctron DOT com>
To:	hodder AT geop DOT ubc DOT ca
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	A couple of (probably) stupid questions...

>	1) What is the real mode gcc (gcc16) for? I was hoping to use it
>	to compile programs that could be swapped out using DOS-Shell -
>	a naive idea in retrospect but I though I'd give it a go.

It just prevents having two versions of go32.exe in memory while
compiling.  gcc16 is just gcc.exe compiled with Turbo-C instead of
gcc.

>	2) I'm thinking of upgrading my 386+387 to a 486 - I'm assuming that
>	the math support will work in the same way - am I right?

Yup.

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