Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Cant' switch to VESA VGA (I wanna see the grafik logo!) | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:02:35 +0100 (BST) |
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> > PS: Why is all this stuff written in pure assembler? > > It's so hard to read. :-) > > All this stuff must be run in 16-bit real mode before we start the kernel > and GCC doesn't know how to generate 16-bit code.
There is a gcc 8086 subset available. There is also bcc a free 16bit C compiler used for the ELKS project. 16bit C is quite a reasonable option nowdays
Alan
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