At 05:33 AM 8/21/2010, Walt Nagel wrote:

>Another possibility worth considering is MinGW/GCC. As long as GCC 
>is "under development," by extension, MinGW will be, as well. The 
>question here would be, do you want to use Windows, Linux or DOS as 
>the development platform -- Windows allows a smoother development 
>environment (e.g., Dev-Cpp), while DOS (DJGPP), of course, allows 
>continued development from FreeDOS, without an additional op sys. 
>Even though the underlying basic compilers are the same, the 3 
>choices are not completely compatible, so a choice of platform at 
>the outset is necessary. (Conversely, nearly all code is 
>transportable among the various implementations.)
>
>Bottom line: I could live and work with either choice -- Open Watcom or GCC.

GCC can never be a choice for anything FreeDOS as it simply does not 
produce 16bit code...

Ralf 


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