Hi Martin,
"Just out of curiosity, why do you use Borland C++? AFAIK it is still "
If I remember correctly, my main idea was that I might make good use of
Turbo Debugger (and I think I did at one point). Plus I really enjoy Borland
IDE and I am very familiar with it & the compiler.
"Would Open Watcom not work for you (if you need to generate 16-bit
code)? Or even DJGPP (if you can live with a DOS extender)? "
My plan from the get-go was to switch to OpenWatcom once the bulk of
development is done. This should be easy, I don't think it uses any Borland-
specific functionality (if there is such a thing).
So I will switch to OpenWatcom before I will integrate this into HelenOS. My
idea is that the bootloader source would live in HelenOS source tree, plus
we will provide a pre-compiled binary within the source tree, as we do with
GRUB.
DJGPP would not be an option, the C code must run in real mode. I don't
think there is a way of guaranteeing that protected mode DOS code would not
interfere with the memory areas where we want to load the kernel.
Best regards,
Jiri
"
M.D.
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