16bit code generation

[Austin English]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak_leung at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> --- On Sat, 28/3/09, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's also not known how well it works under Linux. There
>> was talk
>> about detecting if a user has it installed, then compiling
>> 16 bit code
>> in that case, but no one's worked to see if OpenWatcom
>> works when
>> ran/installed natively.
>
> But win32 openwatcom works under wine's cmd. :-).

Right, but A) AJ doesn't want that and B) that doesn't allow us to
(selectively) build the win16 tests the same time as the rest of the
test suite.

> I don't know how well native linux openwatcom works as a cross-compiler, however, but that probably doesn't matter for this discussion?

Quite the opposite, that's exactly what we WANT to use.

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-Austin