Message-Id: <199604301017.GAA08224@mv.mv.com>
Date:         Tue, 30 Apr 96 13:03:38 LIT
From: Martynas Kunigelis <martynas DOT kunigelis AT VM DOT KTU DOT LT>
Subject:      Re: Library reference for djgpp
To: DJGPP mailing list <DJGPP AT delorie DOT com>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:47:28 +0200 (IST)

On Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:47:28 Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> What is the ``arcane stuff'' that you need to be ``seriously discussed''?

  I think what he means are variables like __djgpp_ds_alias, __djgpp_dos_sel,
__djgpp_exception_state, routines like __djgpp_raise_exception and such. If
one wants to use all power of DJGPP, he must know what do these mean. For
example, I'd suggest to change the macro _dos_ds from a structure field in
the go32_info_block to __djpp_dos_sel, since the latter is in locked memory,
thus might cause less problems in certain cases. Also, in my opinion, all the
go32_.. stuff should be removed from v2.00 library, since it is obsolete, and
porting from v1 to v2 meets a lot other difficulties anywsy, and I don't think
v1 compatibility is still important after so much time. I might be wrong,
though, since I used v1 only for a couple of weeks.

Martynas