On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, David McMackins wrote:
I have been informed that gcc has a -m16 flag that actually outputs
binaries that can run in 16-bit mode. Is there then anything stopping
FreeDOS from being compiled fully with gcc?
If not, why are we still using Watcom?
Pretty sure that GCC, if it supports 8088/286 at all, can't handle all the
memory models (this was, iirc, DJ Delorie's justification for why DJGPP
would only do 386+ binaries - think he said it would at best only support
the tiny and small models, and some of the FreeDOS tools need other memory
models.)
-uso.
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