Date: Tue, 23 Aug 94 10:40:45 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: heintze AT usa DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: gcc260rm.zip -- what is it?
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> I unpacked gcc260rm.zip thinking it was version 2.6.0 of GNU C/C++.  It
> appears that this is not the case at all. This is a new driver program with
> source?  Why is there no description of what this is?  Why is it in a
> separate utils directory.  Is it terribly significant that it is real mode?
> Perhaps this makes it faster?

According to README.DOC, the real mode gcc is needed in certain environments
such as OS/2 and NT.  I can confirm that, at least for previous releases,
OS/2 required the real-mode gcc.  It appears that the protected mode gcc
consumes some resource and eventually crashes at least the window it is
running in.  I don't think anybody understands exactly what the problem is,
but fixing it is low priority since the only drawback of the work-around is
that you don't have a "pure" gnu system.