[OpenBIOS] Questions...
Jeff Garzik
jgarzik at mandrakesoft.com
Mon Jan 24 10:59:43 CET 2000
"Stawnyczy, Evan" wrote:
> From what i've seen C functions require a bios to run. Which compiler are
> you using?
No, a C compiler generates straight CPU assembly code.
BIOS only gets involved when through the runtime library. Under MS-DOS
for example, malloc() and read() both require BIOS assistance. Under
Linux they do not.
Regards,
Jeff
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