Le mercredi 26 janvier 2011 14:48:18, Eli Zaretskii a écrit : > > "The DJGPP library features transparent and automatic support for long > > file names on Windows 9X(1) The DJGPP startup code queries the system > > for the availability of the LFN API, and if it's available, all > > low-level file-oriented primitives are automatically switched to using > > the special LFN-aware functions. This run-time detection of the LFN > > support means that the same executable will run on DOS and on Windows, > > and will automatically support long file names when it runs on Windows > > 9X" > > Yes, I know. I wrote some of those "low-level file-oriented primitives". > > > They are a faq entry on lfn: > > http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq22_16.html > > Did you see who wrote that FAQ?
Yes you :) > > And it seems that lfn is supported since djgpp 2.01 so since October 19, > > 1996. > > That's not the issue, you misunderstood my comment. The issue is that > DJGPP programs switch the CPU to 32-bit protected mode, and use a DPMI > server to issue real-mode DOS and BIOS system calls from protected > mode. doslfn seems to have problems with such programs (which is not > surprising, since any TSR that hooks interrupts might have problems in > protected mode). This is the real bug, and I suppose "might have problems" means this bug could be fixed. And do not talk about bare metal. DPMI is not bare metal dos*. So we could add another layer, that is doslfn in order to compile emacs... Bastien * at least in my sense
