Re: [AD] renaming of ASM files in Allegro 4.2 branch

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On November 17, 2008, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2008, at 08:49, Peter Wang wrote:
> > Maybe they will be revived for the djgpp port?  Probably best to leave
> > them.
>
> Hadn't thought of that. Are they still used by the DJGPP port?
> Anyway, I wasn't really going to suggest deleting them (hey, it's
> more work than just leaving them alone), just saying that I see
> removal as a likely fate for them.

I'm not sure it was ever properly tested. I remember hearing spurious reports 
about the DOS port not even compiling or running a long time after the asm was 
disabled...

> > Renaming .s to .S is okay but we still better not rely on the correct
> > case as on case insensitive file systems unzip programs may not
> > respect
> > the case.
>
> That's actually a good point, though I guess the only platform where
> we need to worry about this is DOS, which converts all filenames to
> uppercase.
> I do remember fun times with C source files being called .C and being
> passed to the compiler that way, with hilarious results. Good times...
>
> Evert
>
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