Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:38:28 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ibcs2 and microsoft a.out's Message-ID: <199603141738.LAA07160@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:35:29 %2B1030." <199603140005.KAA04762@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith writes: > >> V2.3 V3.0 86 small model executable Large Text > >Errr. 'small model' means it's a 286 binary, not much chance of running >that I suspect. > without vm86 right? obviously SCO does it somehow. (oh, no... not this discussion again ;) ) >Do you have to use MASM? You can build a cross-gcc toolchain for i386-go32 >and build 386 DOS binaries with that; we do that here and it works just >fine. As a bonus your DOS executables get a 32-bit flat address space >and virtual memory 8) no, I don't have to. In fact I don't even have to make dos binaries. I was just testing the limits of ibcs2. I do have some code that needs masm, but I've also got plenty of SCO boxes that I can run masm on. I'll look into gcc as a cross though. >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com
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