Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 09:42:22 EST From: DJ Delorie 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.