Hi! News from BTTR:
https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=20959&page=0&order=time&category=0
while working on a single-file version of the EDR-DOS kernel,
GPT partition support was discussed and ECM mentioned a new
interesting tool: IDENT86. This is able to confirm that the
JWASM port of the kernel is identical to a version made with
another Assembler down to the single machine code instruction
level, only leaving encoding differences without influence on
semantics between the original and the JWASM port. Creating a
byte for byte identical version (which a binary checksum would
be able to confirm) would have required manually enforcing the
choice of encodings, which does not make code nicer, I think.
I guess there are several technology news bits in this thread
which can be interesting for us :-)
Regards, Eric
Bonus: https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=21819
mentions MS Win4.x DPMI does not like zeroed environment segments.
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