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From: gil@snsys.com (Gil Jaysmith)
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Subject: Re: C versus C++
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:12:01 GMT
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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998 12:18:11 -0600, Ed Federmeyer
<fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu> wrote:
>By the way:  I compiled the GNU C from the Yaroze sources, and
>there were a few little glitches.  Does anyone know what system
>it was intended to be compiled under?  I was using "DJGPP v2"
>under a DOS box in Win95.  It almost looks like it was originally
>built with "DJGPP v1".

v1 seems likely. v2 switched to using DPMI provided by something like
CWSDPMI as opposed to go32.

>For example:  It couln't find stab.h, so I needed to edit the
>makefile to -DNO_STAB_H.  Also, the makefile wanted "go32",
>instead of "go32-v2".

-DNO_STAB_H would work; so would renaming gstab.h to stab.h. Good old
stabs. Makes you wonder why more people don't use stabs as the debug
format. Or perhaps it doesn't :)

- Gil