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From: softbrek AT kaa DOT informatik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 16 bit GCC/DJGPP?
Date: 16 Oct 1995 16:39:48 GMT
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amh15 AT cus DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Alan Hart) writes:

>Is there still a 16-bit version of GCC or DJGPP? I have a feeling one was 
>distributed with DJGPP about a year ago...

I think the program you are remembering is the so-called 'real-mode gcc'.
That was just the driver program gcc.exe, compiled by turbo-c in 16 bits.
The only reason this was ever useful was the 130 K footprint each 
invocation of go32.exe cost you in the precious 640 K DOS memory. The
real-mode gcc had a much smaller footprint, and therefore you sometimes
could get at least 1 level of recursive makeing if you combined the usage
of the real-mode gcc.exe and a really well-optimized DOS setup, which was
otherwise almost impossible.

For V2, there's no reason for such trickery any more, as the footprint
has become small enough to be neglectable.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)