From: "Scott J. McCaughrin" <sjmccaug AT bluestem DOT prairienet DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Generate real-mode 386 DOS executables?
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 16:28:30 +0000 (UTC)
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Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au> wrote:

: On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 23:02:57 GMT, Spam Averse <nobody AT spamcop DOT net> >I
: have a project that is currently built with Borland's Turbo C/C++
: v3.0.  
:>(For you youngsters, this circa 1992 compiler generates 16-bit DOS 
:>executables for the 86/186/286 CPUs.)  The code is run on a Pentium-based 
:>embedded system under MS-DOS v6.22.  Not only does this compiler not 
:>generate 32-bit code, but the code that it does generate is terribly 
:>inefficient.  I'm considering DJGPP as a replacement for the Turbo C/C++ 
:>compiler.

 The question remains: is DJGPP really for MS-DOS? If so, then I should
 be able to make 16-bit INT 21h DOS function calls. If I cannot make
 such calls, it is really not DOS-compliant. So which is it?