Porting to i686-msdosdjgpp

[gnufan42]

On Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 at 6:09 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

>On 16/11/2021 12:06 am, gnufan42 wrote:
>>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.
>
>I'd never heard of DJGPP but the pthread support still seems limited -
>hard to find an accurate current description of what is actually
>supported. So I would not say these difficulties are overcome :) This
>will be an exceedingly complex and challenging project.
>Cheers,
>David

	Well, you're right. I have just tested the pthread library and it doesn't work. :( However, I saw the others said that it works so I will try to find out what I did wrong.
Thanks,
Gnufan