Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 09:32:50 -0500
From: dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Official scoop: whats the story on V2.0?


> Subject says it all...
> 
> Did I miss an announcement?  Is it in beta?  alpha?

Here's the scoop.

The V2.0 stub loader is done.  We've currently tweaking it to add an
automatic load feature for the DPMI emulator, which is also currently
done but being tweaked.  The stub loader is 2K, but just barely.  We
also have a working crt0.s for V2.0 images.

We've taken the 1.11 libc and mutated it until it works with the V2.0
loader.  In theory, this libc.a will also work for 1.12 programs,
since all the V2.0-specific stuff is in crt0.s.  However, 1.12.2 fixes
haven't been merged in yet.

Also, we're taking this opportunity to completely redo the headers to
be more ANSI/POSIX.2 compliant, and restructuring libc.a to follow
suit.  We're also hand-optimizing some of the routines to improve
performance.

However, all the modules that wouldn't work in DPMI will continue to
not work on V2.0, since you're always in DPMI mode.  Thus, we have to
rewrite the graphics drivers, event library, profiling, etc.  We've
started on the new graphics drivers (barely) but not the others.

These last two paragraphs are the real reason why it's not out yet.

DJ