OSDev.org

ObPedantic: "Fighting fire with fire" means to burn off all the sources of fuel (or oxygen) around an uncontrolled fire in a controlled manner to keep the wildfire from spreading.

Unfortunately, the fuel of flame wars is self-regenerating, and the USENET/message board equivalents of a firebreak - e.g., shouting down the flame warriors in quesion, or intentionally invoking Godwin's Law by pre-emptively calling someone a Nazi - doesn't seem to work.

I had a lot of trouble using DJGPP when I first encountered it. I decided if I really wanted to use gcc, I would use gcc on Linux. In addition, the concept of a stub-file to allow DJGPP to operate on certain DOS systems was clever, but I found it worrisome that these stubs could be misinterpreted as virii by virus scanning software. Ultimately, though, I don't think it is worth it. Good project, though. Thumbs up...




Erm, just sort of pointing the thread in the general direction of a topic.

djgpp is good if your on a win98 or dos machine, its a good stable rock solid c/c++/oc compiler.

on nt/xp/2k/etc it doesnt work properly, which is a known bug in the dpmi implementation in the NT layer. cant be fixed (by non Microsoft anyway).. so bugs out on recursion... (ie: make will often die).

its a real shame.

Hence use Cygwin on NT/2K/XP if you're not worried about DOS compatibility.