Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/06/28/16:54:34
Graaagh the Mighty <invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid> wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2001 08:50:25 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
> <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:
[...]
> Quicksort behaves poorly for pathological inputs, but people still use
> it. (And there's an implementation in libc.)
Just because it's called qsort() by no means implies that the
implementation is QuickSort. In the case of DJGPP, it isn't.
>>Second, usage of the -fomit-frame-pointer option isn't recorded in
>>the .o file.
> And it's the compiler, that writes the .o file, so the compiler
> writers can't claim that that particular obstacle is a circumstance
> beyond their control.
What a pity that we (the DJGPP guys) aren't the compiler writers in
this case... GCC is written by the FSF --- the DJGPP workers just port
it to DOS.
> What the heck is that supposed to mean? In practise, people coding
> DJGPP stuff use exactly two DPMI hosts (or just one of them): CWSDPMI
> and Windoze. (What others *are* there, anyway???)
Lots of types of Windows (3.1, 9x, NT, ME, 2000, XP still to come
out), 386^Max, Linux DOSEMU, OS/2. List still incomplete, I bet.
> possible, and can undoubtedly be made very easy if you can alter both
> the host and the code that will want to detect it.
We can't, for the vast majority of hosts.
--
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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