Porting to i686-msdosdjgpp

gnufan42 gnufan42 at protonmail.com
Mon Nov 15 14:06:03 UTC 2021


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.

Thanks,
Gnufan


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