Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-30 Thread King InuYasha
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Laight wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:23:53PM -0500, King InuYasha wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, at the moment it really is the best we have. AFAIK, there > > isn't any other FOSS compiler that can build 16-bit DOS/Win16 > applications. > > Unless someo

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-30 Thread David Laight
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:23:53PM -0500, King InuYasha wrote: > > Unfortunately, at the moment it really is the best we have. AFAIK, there > isn't any other FOSS compiler that can build 16-bit DOS/Win16 applications. > Unless someone was actually willing to figure out how to make GCC be able to >

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-30 Thread King InuYasha
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 7:39 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > I wonder how bad is it to port some old version of djgpp forward? > ( http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html ) - it is a fork of gcc as far > as I see and did support 16-bit code generation at one time? > > > It is a fork of GCC, but as

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-30 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
I wonder how bad is it to port some old version of djgpp forward? ( http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/history.html ) - it is a fork of gcc as far as I see and did support 16-bit code generation at one time?

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-29 Thread King InuYasha
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:12 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/3/28 Austin English : > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha > wrote: > > >> What is wrong with OpenWatcom? It is an open source development > toolchain, > >> with experimental linux binaries, yes, but they do work the last

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-29 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/28 Austin English : > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha wrote: >> What is wrong with OpenWatcom? It is an open source development toolchain, >> with experimental linux binaries, yes, but they do work the last time I >> checked (which was when 1.8 release came out). > It's not

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-29 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- On Sat, 28/3/09, Austin English wrote: > > I don't know how well native linux openwatcom works as > a cross-compiler, however, but that probably doesn't matter > for this discussion? > > Quite the opposite, that's exactly what we WANT to use. Given that 1) win32 openwatcom works, 2) presum

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-29 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
--- On Sat, 28/3/09, Austin English wrote: > It's also not known how well it works under Linux. There > was talk > about detecting if a user has it installed, then compiling > 16 bit code > in that case, but no one's worked to see if OpenWatcom > works when > ran/installed natively. But win32 o

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-28 Thread Austin English
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > > --- On Sat, 28/3/09, Austin English wrote: > >> It's also not known how well it works under Linux. There >> was talk >> about detecting if a user has it installed, then compiling >> 16 bit code >> in that case, but no one's worked to see i

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-28 Thread Austin English
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM, King InuYasha wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: >> >> On Sunday 22 March 2009 04:00:16 Austin English wrote: >> > Wine supports 16 bit apps, just not as well as 32-bit. Dan had an >> > intern work on a 16 bit test suite >> > (http://c

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-22 Thread King InuYasha
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 04:00:16 Austin English wrote: > > Wine supports 16 bit apps, just not as well as 32-bit. Dan had an > > intern work on a 16 bit test suite > > (http://code.google.com/p/win16test/), which can be used to test 16 > >

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-22 Thread David Laight
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:34:03AM +1100, Ben Klein wrote: > Oops, missed reply-to-all. > > 2009/3/22 Tijl Coosemans : > > I was reading through binutils documentation and came across this. > > Maybe it can be used to compile 16 bit tests. > > > > 3.2.4. 16-bit mode > > Binutils (2.9.1.0.25+) now

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-22 Thread Michael Karcher
Am Sonntag, den 22.03.2009, 11:46 +0100 schrieb Tijl Coosemans: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 04:00:16 Austin English wrote: > > Wine supports 16 bit apps, just not as well as 32-bit. Dan had an > > intern work on a 16 bit test suite > > (http://code.google.com/p/win16test/), which can be used to test

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-22 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Sunday 22 March 2009 04:00:16 Austin English wrote: > Wine supports 16 bit apps, just not as well as 32-bit. Dan had an > intern work on a 16 bit test suite > (http://code.google.com/p/win16test/), which can be used to test 16 > bit support, fwiw. Yes, this is what I meant to refer to. AFAIK th

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-21 Thread Austin English
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:28 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > Ben Klein wrote: >> Oops, missed reply-to-all. >> >> 2009/3/22 Tijl Coosemans : >> >>> I was reading through binutils documentation and came across this. >>> Maybe it can be used to compile 16 bit tests. >>> >>> 3.2.4. 16-bit mode >>> Binuti

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-21 Thread Ben Klein
2009/3/22 James McKenzie : > Ben Klein wrote: >> Oops, missed reply-to-all. >> >> 2009/3/22 Tijl Coosemans : >> >>> I was reading through binutils documentation and came across this. >>> Maybe it can be used to compile 16 bit tests. >>> >>> 3.2.4. 16-bit mode >>> Binutils (2.9.1.0.25+) now fully su

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-21 Thread James McKenzie
Ben Klein wrote: > Oops, missed reply-to-all. > > 2009/3/22 Tijl Coosemans : > >> I was reading through binutils documentation and came across this. >> Maybe it can be used to compile 16 bit tests. >> >> 3.2.4. 16-bit mode >> Binutils (2.9.1.0.25+) now fully support 16-bit mode (registers and >>

Re: 16bit code generation

2009-03-21 Thread Ben Klein
Oops, missed reply-to-all. 2009/3/22 Tijl Coosemans : > I was reading through binutils documentation and came across this. > Maybe it can be used to compile 16 bit tests. > > 3.2.4. 16-bit mode > Binutils (2.9.1.0.25+) now fully support 16-bit mode (registers and > addressing) on i386 PCs. Use .co

16bit code generation

2009-03-21 Thread Tijl Coosemans
I was reading through binutils documentation and came across this. Maybe it can be used to compile 16 bit tests. 3.2.4. 16-bit mode Binutils (2.9.1.0.25+) now fully support 16-bit mode (registers and addressing) on i386 PCs. Use .code16 and .code32 to switch between assembly modes. Also, a neat t