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From: Mike Little <MikeL AT amprsoft DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: best UNIX-->DOS porting compiler?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 00:21:24 GMT
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In article: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960618082524 DOT 15901F-100000 AT is>  Eli Zaretskii 
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
> 
> 
> On 17 Jun 1996, Brian Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > >2)	Can I run DJGPP programs under a Win3.1 shell?  How bout a Win95
> > >	or a WinNT shell?
> > 
> > It might in Real mode 3.1 (is that still supported?) but if win 3.1 goes
> > into pmode, I'm almost 100% sure that djgpp compiled programs will not work.
> 
> That's not true.  DJGPP *does* run under Win 3.x in 386-enhanced mode.  I 
> do it every day.  DJGPP produces programs that are DPMI clients, and 
> Windows has a built-in DPMI server that satisfies the client calls.
> 
GDB (the GNU debugger) on the other hand seems to suffer from random segmentation 
violation faults when running under a DOS box in Windows 3.11. I found this the 
hard way, and wasted some time trying to track the problem in my code! :-(

Mike,
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