To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: How to use gcc16?
From: alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 93 03:18:28 EST
Organization: Disorganization

"Wonkoo Kim, EE, U. of Pittsburgh" <src4src!mcdhup!rutgers!vms.cis.pitt.edu!WKIM writes:

> I failed to use gcc16 (real mode) that supplied in djgpp/gcc package (2.2.2).
> When I issue "gcc16 myprog.c", I got the following error message:
> (I renamed the real-mode gcc.exe to gcc16.exe.)
> 
> 	GCC16.EXE: specs file malformed after 377 characters
> 
> What is the problem?  And what is gcc16? (My understanding is that gcc16 is 
> a real-mode front end for gcc compiler generating 32-bit codes, thus can 
> compile source programs under real-mode-only system operation, say dos (v86)
> window under windows3.  Am I right?)
> 

GCC16 is a port of the compiler driver (only) that runs in real mode.
I personally see no reason for its existence. You still have to exec
the 32 bit compilers to get the real work done. And no, it won't run
in a penalty box under Windoze, since I haven't got DPMI support up and
running yet... (I need it so I can run it in a VDM under OS/2).

Hopefully my work on the DPMI stuff will come up to speed real soon
as I'm getting a new 1G disk next week... just ordered it 2 days ago.
I just didn't have enough room with only 320M disk for all my development
tools :-(.

FWIW you probably don't want to run go32 under windoze even if I do
provide support. Windoze is notoriously inefficient at managing system
resources.


alane AT wozzle DOT linet DOT org (J. Alan Eldridge)
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