BCC...

[ron minnich]

On 8 Mar 2004, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> 
> The PCBIOS compatibility code in rombios.c has quite a few warts.
> Primary among them is that it written in a nasty mix of asm and 16bit C
> code.  With the biggest problem seeming to be that bcc is a limited
> 16bit compiler.

I don't much like this code. 

> In real mode there is 256K that we can place a real mode BIOS in.  If
> all we do is stick to what a PCBIOS can do now, and don't attempt to
> extend it, but just be a good implementation 256K should be enough to do
> whatever is needed.

we're back to square one. Why do this when we can do emulation? I think I 
don't see what you're planning here.

> I don't know if gcc using 32bit overrides in 16bit mode would be
> better than a pure 16bit C compiler.  

one less compiler is always good to me.

> So if the issues keeping us from using 16bit C compiler are primarily
> cosmetic I don't see why they can't be fixed.  Long term I don't even
> want to touch a compatibility layer.  I want to use something much
> simpler and much more powerful.

I don't see the reason long term for rombios.c or 16bit C compilers. I 
guess I'm missing something.

ron