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reply "Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> writes:
Hi, I'm trying to translate some of the snippets from snippets.org to d. I
downloaded some snippets and tried them with dmc, and basically they worked.
However I couldn't get int86 to work (I have WinXP). I thought maybe I could
get it to work in D, but it didn't anyway (I did translate part of dos.h).
Any idea of how I could do it?

-------------------------
Carlos Santander
Hi, I'm trying to translate some of the snippets from snippets.org to d. I
downloaded some snippets and tried them with dmc, and basically they worked.
However I couldn't get int86 to work (I have WinXP). I thought maybe I could
get it to work in D, but it didn't anyway (I did translate part of dos.h).
Any idea of how I could do it?

-------------------------
Carlos Santander
May 05 2003
next sibling parent reply "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
All you really need to do is replace the C calling convention with the D
calling convention in it. Or I'm misunderstanding the problem.

"Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> wrote in message
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 Hi, I'm trying to translate some of the snippets from snippets.org to d. I
 downloaded some snippets and tried them with dmc, and basically they


worked.

 However I couldn't get int86 to work (I have WinXP). I thought maybe I


could

 get it to work in D, but it didn't anyway (I did translate part of dos.h).
 Any idea of how I could do it?
May 05 2003
parent reply "Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> writes:
"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> escribiσ en el mensaje
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| All you really need to do is replace the C calling convention with the D
| calling convention in it. Or I'm misunderstanding the problem.
|
| "Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> wrote in message
| news:b962ui$hlk$1 digitaldaemon.com...
| > Hi, I'm trying to translate some of the snippets from snippets.org to d.
I
| > downloaded some snippets and tried them with dmc, and basically they
| worked.
| > However I couldn't get int86 to work (I have WinXP). I thought maybe I
| could
| > get it to work in D, but it didn't anyway (I did translate part of
dos.h).
| > Any idea of how I could do it?
|

Maybe you are. I created dos.d with a line
extern (C) int int86(int,REGS *,REGS *);
and I previously defined REGS, but when I compile the program, I get "Error
42: Symbol Undefined _int86". The same happens when I try to compile a
similar program using dmc.

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Carlos Santander


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May 05 2003
parent reply "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
"Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> wrote in message
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 Maybe you are. I created dos.d with a line
 extern (C) int int86(int,REGS *,REGS *);
 and I previously defined REGS, but when I compile the program, I get


"Error

 42: Symbol Undefined _int86". The same happens when I try to compile a
 similar program using dmc.


Error 42 is not a compiler error, it's a linker error. I suspect you haven't
supplied the body of the function int86() to the linker.
May 05 2003
parent reply "Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> writes:
"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> escribiσ en el mensaje
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| "Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> wrote in message
| news:b969gp$ocr$1 digitaldaemon.com...
| > Maybe you are. I created dos.d with a line
| > extern (C) int int86(int,REGS *,REGS *);
| > and I previously defined REGS, but when I compile the program, I get
| "Error
| > 42: Symbol Undefined _int86". The same happens when I try to compile a
| > similar program using dmc.
|
| Error 42 is not a compiler error, it's a linker error. I suspect you
haven't
| supplied the body of the function int86() to the linker.
|
|

[I admit this should've been in some c++ forum, but now that we're at it...]
Yes, my mistake: I should've said "... when I link...". int86() is declared
in dos.h, however I can't use it not even with dmc. Yes, it's right below a
"#ifndef __NT__" and I have XP, but I expected that it would be fully
supported in some library.

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May 05 2003
parent reply "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
"Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> wrote in message
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 "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> escribiσ en el mensaje
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 |
 | "Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> wrote in message
 | news:b969gp$ocr$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 | > Maybe you are. I created dos.d with a line
 | > extern (C) int int86(int,REGS *,REGS *);
 | > and I previously defined REGS, but when I compile the program, I get
 | "Error
 | > 42: Symbol Undefined _int86". The same happens when I try to compile a
 | > similar program using dmc.
 |
 | Error 42 is not a compiler error, it's a linker error. I suspect you
 haven't
 | supplied the body of the function int86() to the linker.
 [I admit this should've been in some c++ forum, but now that we're at


it...]

 Yes, my mistake: I should've said "... when I link...". int86() is


declared

 in dos.h, however I can't use it not even with dmc. Yes, it's right below


a

 "#ifndef __NT__" and I have XP, but I expected that it would be fully
 supported in some library.


What memory model are you using? int86() accesses interrupts, which is not
available to Win32 memory model programming.
May 05 2003
parent reply "Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> writes:
"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> escribiσ en el mensaje
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|
|
| What memory model are you using? int86() accesses interrupts, which is not
| available to Win32 memory model programming.
|

You lost me there... hehe... I don't know, I really don't. Well, I guess
I'll leave it there.

I wanted int86() because I wanted to implement some (portable) functions for
the console. But if int86() is not available, is there any other option?

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May 06 2003
parent "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:
"Carlos Santander B." <carlos8294 msn.com> wrote in message
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 "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> escribiσ en el mensaje
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 |
 |
 | What memory model are you using? int86() accesses interrupts, which is


not

 | available to Win32 memory model programming.
 |

 You lost me there... hehe... I don't know, I really don't. Well, I guess
 I'll leave it there.

 I wanted int86() because I wanted to implement some (portable) functions


for

 the console. But if int86() is not available, is there any other option?


Win32 has a whole slew of functions to manipulate the console - but none of
it is portable. But you can use the DMC portable shell around them,
www.digitalmars.com/rtl/disp.html
May 06 2003
prev sibling parent Richard Krehbiel <rich kastle.com> writes:
Carlos Santander B. wrote:

 Hi, I'm trying to translate some of the snippets from snippets.org to d. I
 downloaded some snippets and tried them with dmc, and basically they worked.
 However I couldn't get int86 to work (I have WinXP). I thought maybe I could
 get it to work in D, but it didn't anyway (I did translate part of dos.h).
 Any idea of how I could do it?


No platform that D supports will ever have access to the bad-old-days 
DOS int86 functions.  You'll have to figure out what the particular 
int86 function calls are supposed to do, and re-write them using 
standard functions.
May 07 2003