Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 13:47:20 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 8 May 2001, Brian Chance wrote:

>  I realize that Djgpp links its output natively to load the DPMI server
> for protected mode compatibility. Is it possible to produce files which
> are independant of DPMI with Djgpp?

DPMI is used not only for entering the protected mode, but also for
all system calls issued by the low-level library functions.  Memory
allocation, file I/O (including reading the program into extended
memory from its .exe file), hooking hardware interrupts, support for
debugging programs--all these and more are handled via DPMI services,
because issuing real-mode interrupts from a protected-mode program is
a tricky business.

If you remove DPMI, you will have to rewrite all that low-level stuff
(or give up the functions which need it).