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Message-Id: <m0wzGA8-000S1nC@inti.edu.ar>
Comments: Authenticated sender is <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:09:58 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: Re: generating 16-bit code (286 and lower)

Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi> wrote:
> In article <m0wyH1t-000S1mC AT inti DOT edu DOT ar> you wrote:
> : YES is possible. But takes TOO MUCH work. You must write the machine 
> : description for GCC and rewrite a lot of the DJGPP libc. So even when is 
> : possible I think no body will do that.
> 
> Is there any need to do all that? As far as I see it, we only need 16-bit GCC
> for programs that must be in 16-bit code. Only such program I know of is
> CWSDPMI, but there may be others. However, it should be possible to compile
> such programs even without any C library, as long as we have working compiler,
> assembler, and linker. Would it be too much work to write these?
If that is the problem I think is much more easy adapt the code to be compiled 
with one of the free 16 bits compilers. 

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