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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Wojciech Galazka <wgalazka AT chem DOT uw DOT edu DOT pl>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 18:26:46 +0000
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Subject: Re: VxDs with DJGPP

Witaj Wojciech Galazka, you wrote:

> Hi,
> As many of you know VxDs are the tricky
> piece of Windows which so far have
> focused little attention.
> But when one buys Thielen's 'Writing VxDs'
> the only thing yet required to write VxDs in C 
> is a good 32-bit C compiler.
> In this book the authors used Watcom C but
> I dare ask if anyone tried (or though of) to use djgpp
> C compiler instead.
> 
> Basically I don't know if it is possible to
> write something like
> #pragma segmentname("_LOCKED_DATA_")
> in other words if it's possible to force the
> C compiler to name data and code segments .
> as we want not as the compiler wants
> 
> any opinions

You can name the segments, but the problem is how to generate the VxD, what 
format is used? PE?

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