Re: Free x86 C compiler wanted

kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk
13 Apr 2007 12:49:19 -0400

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From: kenney@cix.compulink.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 13 Apr 2007 12:49:19 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 07-04-033
Keywords: C, MSDOS
Posted-Date: 13 Apr 2007 12:49:19 EDT

  gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) wrote:


> Also, I believe that at
> least the later versions of DOS and most Windows will load EXE
> files with a COM extension. That was done for FORMAT, for
> example.


  DOS decided what an executable format actually was by reading a header
in the program IIRC. The file designation COM, EXE etc. was only used to
decide what was executable and what was data. I don't know when it was
introduced but IIRC Windows 3.1 had a list of executable file types that
could be edited by the user.


  Ken Young



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