🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8365@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>vandys@sequent.com (Andrew Valencia) writes:
>>Turns out that the package--known as djgpp--is actually the full 32-bit
>>GNU C compiler,...Of course, it can't give you windows, or multi-tasking,
>>or all the speed of a native 32-bit OS.  But I still run into a LOT of
>>PC's, and this package really opens up the possible things I can get
>>done on it!
>
>Be careful with that assumption.  Many PC users require the system to
>run Windows-386 and other extended-memory applications.  The Gnu-C
>port uses its own extended-memory model, as I recall, which makes
>applications which use it incompatible with a variety of other packages.
>
>Could someone more familiar with the technical aspects of this write
>something up about it?  I'm curious as to which extended-memory
>applications are likely to be compatible with djgpp.
>
>-rich

I haven't actually run djgcc, as I don't have a 386 at the moment, but I have
looked at the docs and code.  It doesn't look as if it will work under any
386 operating environment (eg Windows, Desqview).  The GO32 DOS extender doesn't
know about VCPI or DPMI -- this would be a *great* project for somebody who knows
their way around such things.  (Also, you could tweak the licensing to allow 
people to distribute freeware compiled with it w/o a royalty...)

Please note that all of this applies only to djgcc as of maybe 6 months ago...
it may very well have changed.

What I want is to be able to take Emacs 18.56 (or whatever) to my 386 PC, type
"make", and have a working 32-bit Emacs.  This is not very possible.  However,
this compiler comes closer than anything else.

   Eli "@gang.umass.edu" Brandt