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<h2>21.1 New features in DJGPP v2</h2>

<p><em><strong>Q</strong>: What exciting new features will I find in v2 as opposed to v1.x?</em>

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<p><strong>A</strong>:  DJGPP v2.x is a DPMI-only environment, and it includes a free DPMI
host for those who don't have another DPMI provider installed.  In addition,
v2 features the following major improvements upon v1.1x:

<ul>
<li>much faster extender (the free DPMI host) and library functions;

<li>very low memory footprint of the DPMI host below 640KB;

<li>the DPMI server is loaded only once: no more problems with spawning child
programs (e.g., almost unlimited recursive Make's);

<li>ANSI- and POSIX-compliant libraries and header files, which should make
porting Unix programs a lot easier;

<li>support for signals;

<li>387 emulation under DPMI;

<li>graphics which works in <em>any</em> setup, including under Windows;

<li>fixes of many bugs in hardware interrupts' and mixed-mode programming
support;

<li>support of long filenames on Windows 9X;

<li>ability to build all of DJGPP without commercial products (like Turbo C
required to compile go32 in v1.x);
</ul>

<p>If you want to help in further v2 development, check out the list of
features which have yet to be done and volunteer to implement some of
them.

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