Help!

[Erik Mouw]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:53:22AM -0600, Donny Nunez  wrote:
> Hi my name is Donny, I'm from Costa Rica,  Could you do me a favor? 
> I neen a gcc that generated 16-bits code, I'm making a operating
> system, and i need to access that bios services, Can you help me?
> Where I can find this compiler?.  Thanks

I don't think gcc is able to generate 16 bit code for the 80x86 family,
but the GNU assembler certainly is by using the ".code16" directive.
For an example, have a look at the file arch/i386/boot/setup.S in a
recent linux-2.4 kernel.


Erik

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