Re: Cant' switch to VESA VGA (I wanna see the grafik logo!)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 20 Jul 1998 00:02:35 +0100 (BST)

> > 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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