Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Май-2004 12:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Oldeman) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> So just sent us that 10 line patch which saves those precious 5 bytes >> in ONE mail and send the 100 line patch which just changes layout and BO> yes! -- exactly right here. Far too much changed for so little g

Re: Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread Jim Hall
Steffen Kaiser wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004, Bart Oldeman wrote: Hi Tom, You don't remember correctly. the kernel reference compiler has been for a long time TC 2.01 (which is free), and has been changed to OW because it generates better (smaller) code, and because it's free and open. Aitor remem

Re: Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Май-2004 16:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Oldeman) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> It works (compiles programs). I even already prepared ATTRIB edition, >> which compilable by TC/BC/OW, and delay its release only because wait, if I >> found some new ways to reduce RTL (by replacing some R

Re: Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > It works (compiles programs). I even already prepared ATTRIB edition, > which compilable by TC/BC/OW, and delay its release only because wait, if I > found some new ways to reduce RTL (by replacing some RTL functions) - > currently ATTRIB.EXE af

Re: Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Май-2004 15:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kaiser) wrote to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: SK> Arkady, how is your progress toward OW going? It works (compiles programs). I even already prepared ATTRIB edition, which compilable by TC/BC/OW, and delay its release only because

Re: Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Steffen Kaiser escribió: How about to change the reference compiler not only for the kernel, but for all the project? There had been a movement from MASM to NASM already, so this can be reflected here as well. This is missing some documentation as well, right? It would be helpful to have some port

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Steffen Kaiser escribiÃ: Although, I would also keep the doing of the past to not press people to have to port project too heavily to OpenWatcom. However, it would be good to have a fd-doc for Newbies about OW in action. I had put together would was posted here into: http://freedos.sourceforg

Re: Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Mon, 10 May 2004, tom ehlert wrote: Hello Tom, to read and to care for are two things, right --> therefore: > Now - what use has a spec, if noone cares the slighest about it ? That's why I suggested to update it to the current, in order to give it more substance. And to reflect the actual st

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread Alain
Eric Auer escreveu: Arkady, you really never learn it, do you? Eric, you don't understand: he is russian ;-) Alain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to

Re: Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Steffen, > http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/spec/spec.html > Section "Programming Tools To Be Used" > "Our reference standard for a C compiler will be Borland C 3.1. Our > reference standard for Assembly will be Microsoft MASM. Borland C 3.1 was > chosen as the reference standard because this

Reference compiler (was Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c)

2004-05-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Bart Oldeman wrote: > Hi Tom, > > > You don't remember correctly. > > the kernel reference compiler has been for a long time TC 2.01 (which > > is free), and has been changed to OW because it generates better > > (smaller) code, and because it's free and open. > > Aitor rememb

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
Hi Tom, > You don't remember correctly. > the kernel reference compiler has been for a long time TC 2.01 (which > is free), and has been changed to OW because it generates better > (smaller) code, and because it's free and open. Aitor remembers correctly -- he simply goes a few years further back

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Aitor, >>(don't forget, that kernel >>may/should be compiled by many compilers). >> >> > This is actually not true. The reference compiler for the FreeDOS > project is, if I remember correcly, BC3.0. You don't remember correctly. the kernel reference compiler has been for a long time TC

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Eric Auer wrote: > You optimized less than 0x10 bytes but you sent a diff of probably > far more than 100 lines. Most changes involve removing comments, changing > indendation, replacing code like "foo = bar; if (foo == ...)" by > code like "if ((foo = bar) == ...)" which is l

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Mon, 10 May 2004, [UTF-8] Aitor SantamarÃa Merino wrote: Hallo, > This is actually not true. The reference compiler for the FreeDOS > project is, if I remember correcly, BC3.0. Hm, wasn't it Turbo C 3.0 ;-) > But the purpose of this mail is to encourage to change this spec, at > least to adm

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-10 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Arkady V.Belousov escribiÃ: (don't forget, that kernel may/should be compiled by many compilers). This is actually not true. The reference compiler for the FreeDOS project is, if I remember correcly, BC3.0. But the purpose of this mail is to encourage to change this spec, at least to adm

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-09 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Май-2004 02:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: EA> you really never learn it, do you? I try. EA> You optimized less than 0x10 bytes ...for OW. For BC gain is _much_ more (don't forget, that kernel may/should be compiled by many compilers). EA> but yo

[Freedos-kernel] Re: patch: inthndlr.c

2004-05-09 Thread Eric Auer
Arkady, you really never learn it, do you? You optimized less than 0x10 bytes but you sent a diff of probably far more than 100 lines. Most changes involve removing comments, changing indendation, replacing code like "foo = bar; if (foo == ...)" by code like "if ((foo = bar) == ...)" which is les