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DJGPP and OpenWatcom (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 01.03.2008, 02:45

> > Besides speed (which is not that important IMO) is that OW supports C++.
> > Also, they improved the CRT concerning size. A simple 32bit DOS "hello
> > world" binary with OW is now just 17 kB.
It's good that OW DOS support is improving :-) Competition is nice (at least as long as it follows useful goals) :clap:

What's this 17 KiB ? DOS LE ? DOS LE + STUB32A ?

> BTW, that 17k .EXE, is that from 1.8 beta? Does that include DOS extender
> or just the DOS/4GW stub?

IIRC the DOG/4SW stub has 12 KiB - the dummy stub has the same size as complete PMODE/W or D3X extender, but hey, feel free to use it nevertheless :hungry:

> Is that before or after UPXing?
Some people do refuse UPX :lol3:

> You mean GNU as? Yeah, I dunno why anybody bothers using that as a
> stand-alone assembler in lieu of YASM, NASM, FASM, etc.
Why do you think GAS is better ? :hungry:

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