From: "A.Appleyard" To: DJGPP AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 10:20:23 GMT Subject: djgpp compiling real mode? Message-ID: <11C66561CAA@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> I wrote suggesting that djgpp should be able to compile small real-mode functions and programs (e.g. as interrupt handlers). Someone replied that the resulting (need to cope with segment-and-offset type addresses in 32bit mode) would cause too much complication. This complication would be avoided if the rule said that any djgpp real-mode compilations must all fit (including all working space) into 64K bytes and thus all in one segment and no heap / malloc / new / delete / etc, no recursion, all array bounds to be numeric. This would be enough to write interrupt handlers and similar without the user having to clutter his computer with another C compiler to write real-mode odds and ends.