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clean dos extender executable format (Developers)

posted by DosWorld, 08.01.2023, 19:09

> The lack of segmentation (not supporting the
> "seg" keyword in assembler code) is something
> I am happy to work around. I changed my
> assembler code that was using that, and will
> make sure the C compiler doesn't generate that.

aout, by design, have 1 data seg and 1 code seg.
Here is no any type of relocation for segments, so aout is applicable for
tiny or small memory models only.
imho, this is not enough for 16-bit DOS.

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