On 16/11/2021 12:06 am, gnufan42 wrote:
David Holmes wrote:
I'd say it is technically impossible to port OpenJDK to DOS as you do
not have any of the necessary operating system support for threads,
synchronization, virtual memory, ....
Well, these difficulties are all overcame by the DJGPP project. They
use DPMI to let the code runs in 32-bit protected mode, they implemented a lot
of POSIX functions, including pthread. Otherwise I won't be trying.
I'd never heard of DJGPP but the pthread support still seems limited -
hard to find an accurate current description of what is actually
supported. So I would not say these difficulties are overcome :) This
will be an exceedingly complex and challenging project.
Cheers,
David
Thanks,
Gnufan
