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echo: os2prog
to: Thomas Seeling
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1996-11-17 01:50:24
subject: `Which C++ Compiler ?` -

TS>
  > JdeBP>> Calling 16-bit code requires "hand thunking"
using a set of
  > JdeBP>> supplied macros.
  >
  > DM> No longer true - 0.9b or 0.9c included automatic thunking, although
  > DM> the old macros are still supported for backward compatability.
  >
  > This is false. Thunking by use of macros is still required. There are a
  > lot of predefined calls to 16-bit-libraries in emxwrap.dll
  > etc., but if you want to call e.g. the 16-bit-semaphore API
  > like I had to to access /sem/squish/default, you are still
  > left to do it yourself.
TS>

  Thanks for providing clarification.

  Well, MetaWare High C++ also provides pre-thunked versions of the VIO,
  MOU, and KBD APIs in its library, but I still list it in the CONs.  I'd
  have to use the same standard for EMX C++.

  > JdeBP <
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