Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/19/11:13:11
Orlando Andico (orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph) wrote:
: If what you want is a Linux-hosted GCC which outputs DOS binaries, then
: look no further than MOSS ("a soft blanket over the rocky slopes of DOS").
:
: [...]
:
: Honestly I haven't tried MOSS myself, as I work mostly in a UNIX
: environment and for my rare forays into DOS I use DJGPP because that's
: what I've always used.
I tried MOSS. I wasn't impressed. Under MOSS, my program ran for a
bit and then dumped core. Before crashing, my program produced some
output that was messed up because '\n' wasn't mapped to '\n\r'
properly.
I'll stick to using a DJGPP based cross compiler. DJGPP seems to be
much more reliable.
-- James
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