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- From: joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner)
- Subject: Re: GCC
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- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 03:22:08 GMT
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- In <BxBvG3.MG@huey.jpl.nasa.gov> brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Brad Hines) writes:
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- >There is a port of GCC to OS/2, so in theory it should be able to run under
- >NT. However, there is a problem (one which I have had with a number of
- >OS/2 character-mode programs), in that many OS/2 programs (and I'm pretty
- >sure I recall that GCC is one of them) check first to see whether
- >you're trying to run them in an OS/2 DOS box instead of an OS/2 command
- >prompt window. If you are, they say "This program cannot be run in
- >DOS mode". Such a program, when run under NT, prints out this message
- >and then terminates. I'm going to complain about this on CI$ this
- >weekend to see what they say about it.
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- I was under the impression that NT only supported OS/2 1.x binaries,
- i.e., 16-bit. GCC is a 2.0 (32-bit) app.
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