X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa AT zytor DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 'The system cannot execute the specified program' (again)
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:47:59 -0800
Organization: Zytor Communications
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <491792CF.3010004@zytor.com>
References: <6nk3hhFm2at0U1 AT mid DOT uni-berlin DOT de> <gf3jca$32p$1 AT aioe DOT org>	 <6nlir1Fm2e1kU1 AT mid DOT uni-berlin DOT de>	 <200811081625 DOT mA8GPJWO015489 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com>	 <6nn41lFmcgqkU1 AT mid DOT uni-berlin DOT de> <9af855b0811090326t494d1487v15cf1c5be7be5a7 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-210-181-100.hsd1.ca.comcast.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1226281679 25682 98.210.181.100 (10 Nov 2008 01:47:59 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news AT terminus DOT zytor DOT com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:47:59 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501)
In-Reply-To: <9af855b0811090326t494d1487v15cf1c5be7be5a7@mail.gmail.com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com
X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com
Precedence: bulk

Gerrit van Niekerk wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Andreas Eibach <aeibach AT mail DOT com
> <mailto:aeibach AT mail DOT com>> wrote:
> 
>     But it should obey to the rules of modern times someday instead of
>     staying a
>     sort of "relic" of computer history for all times!
> 
> 
> That may be true for PCs, but there are millions of DOS-based embedded
> systems out there and DPMI and compilers like DJGPP are providing tools
> for modern times software to utilize those hardware designs.
> 
> Thanks DJ for providing support for much more than "relic" computers!
> 

Indeed.

I'm personally particularly glad to be able to use GCC and its related
tools for DOS (DJGPP), Win32 (MinGW), and all kinds of Unix variants;
relying on a single compiler across platforms makes things a lot easier,
plus (and this is huge) there is no better compiler platform for use as
a cross-compiler (compile on one platform, run on another) in existence.
 I do all my builds on Linux, regardless of the target platform.

The only platform for which I have to use a different compiler
(OpenWatcom) is OS/2, because the only OS/2 port of the GNU tools I've
found for OS/2 is "dirty" and will not compile on a non-OS/2 platform.

	-hpa