From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: precompiled headers and djgpp Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <38D161B5 DOT C1AFAE1B AT caresystems DOT com DOT au> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 29 X-Trace: /KDWjYxSgtnd6BntrVKka9dG2aSAWfrqYnvmQc7iGZ5VIjbBOyDVIgnFs/GnIYP8kqw3UWiqmM5V!fV9os7WZm3RDplBA15/C5RG6b9eK0+VymQIqCvAZpw6UewH2xDvSZEawfoWZcIsntDF77Ks9zDRK!ATa1NqE= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:55:04 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:55:04 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:35:33 +1000, leon wrote: >Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote: >> >> > So IMHO precompiled headers would be useful and necessary if you are >> > programming in windoze apps which usually drag in monstrous amount of >> > header code, but it is of limited (superflous?) use in a DOS compiler. >> >> Agreed. Obviously, I wasn't talking about Windows programming. > >i see - was just wondering - therefore one would be correct to assume >that it is not djgpp that compiles win32 code when used with those >software add ons that allow win32 development with djgpp? It's not DJGPP. It's GCC (and cc1*.exe) that compiles your code. DJGPP, technically speaking, is a C library and a set of tools to make GCC work with DOS, right? -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/