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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by zerr on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:21AM (#17142097)
> using the OpenWatcom compiler [0] for BIOS because it is the only reasonable way to handle x86 segmentation from C.

Can you elaborate?

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Re:Consider using Digital Mars C compiler by yuhong on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:23AM (#17142111)
It is not impossible to use gcc to generate 16-bit code, but it lacks support for things like near and far pointers.
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