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From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT noavailemail DOT cmm>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and NASM Versions?
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:17:31 -0400
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"John Wright" <john AT wacontrols DOT com> wrote in message
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> Should I apply any patches 2.03? Do they even exist? It seems like I have
> seen some mention of this.

No idea.  I've not done anything to 2.03 since I downloaded it some years
ago.  IIRC, one of the developers (JMG) has added the supplemental library
(libsupp ?) for functions missing in 2.03, such as snprintf().  That might
be considered a "patch" that you would want.

> 1. What does name mangling apply to the most? NASM/assembly, C++, or both?

Compilers, e.g., for C or C++ etc.  Sorry, I'm not too familiar with what
they do.  What I understand is that they usually place an underscore on
names to prevent naming collisions.  Unfortunately, I've never seen the
stuff in that file before.  I guess I need to read up on that too.
Wikipedia has a page on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_mangling

> 2. Running DJgpp and NASM on a XP machine (dos window). I assume dos
> versions of NASM okay.

I'm using an older version of Windows, so I don't know about DOS versions of
NASM on XP, sorry.  From what others have said here, 2.04 is the version of
DJGPP that's supposed to work better with XP or later.

> Where does Win32 version come into play? I'm going to assume
> windows API related windows application programming?

Yes.  You probably can't access Win32 from DJGPP ...  ( Can you?  Scary if
you can ... )

BTW, there are plenty of free Windows compilers: MinGW, Cygwin, Pelles C,
LCC-Win32, OpenWatcom, LadSoft CC386, LLVM, etc ...


Rod Pemberton