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From: huntercr AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu (Charles Hunter)
Subject: Re: DJGPP in DOS session under OS/2 Warp?
To: wkim+@pitt.edu, DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp mailing list)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 17:31:39 -0500 (EST)

> 
> > Date: Fri, 02 Jun 95 13:44:23 -0400
> > From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu
> > To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
> > Reply-To: rbabcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
> > Subject: Re: DJGPP in DOS session under OS/2 Warp?
> > 
> > > Anyways ... going back to original question ... I think you can run DJGPP 
> > > in a DOS VDM without any problems.  I was talking to somebody about this 
> > > just the other day.  The guy I was talking to did mention that there is a 
> > > "quirk" with the DJGPP GO32 extender in a DOS VDM.  I can't remember what 
> > > it was 'tho.
> > 
> > The quirk is that you need to use the real-mode gcc when compiling, but this
> > has no performance implications.  (Remember that gcc is merely a control
> 
> I think you don't have to use real-mode gcc if system memory is enough.
> I could compile with regular gcc without troubles.

Yes, you are correct.It does not need to be the realmode version.
 I use regular djgpp gcc in an oS/2 dos shell
all the time. The only thing that can trip you is if you don't have an FPU,
as 387emu doesn't work in DPMI. Of course version 2 will make this obsolete.

			-- Charles Hunter

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