All right, I couldn't resist to port the C version back to DOS. It was

tricky, and I had to fight again all the limitations and bullshit MS-DOS

brings. For porting, I used Borland C in version 3.1 . Older versions

might work also, but you will probably have to take out a lot of code

generator modules if your version of Turbo/Borland-C does not offer

overlays. Porting to compilers from other manufacturers is probably not

impossible, but surely more effort than buying a used copy of BC3.1...

Don't bother with the dozens of warnings issued by the compiler concerning

unused parameters: Things have to be like that since functions are called

via pointers and some functions need the parameters and some not. There

must be a switch somewhere to silence the compiler..

Copy 'Makefile.dos' to 'Makefile' and move the 'makedef.dos' (I hate this

8+3 limit!) to 'Makefile.def'. Compiling and test run should then work

as usual. Assure that you have at least 600 Kbytes of free DOS memory

or otherwise the larger tests might fail! For the DOS platform, the

CKMALLOC symbol is defined to automatically check for out-of-memory

conditions. The 'wrapped' functions are malloc(), realloc(), and strdup().

There must be a function missing, since AS still occasionally crashes when

he runs out of memory....

Compiling for DOS protected mode is also possible. Use the 'makedef.dpmi'

as 'Makefile.def'. I tested this with Borland-C 4.5 and the Powerpack for

BC 4.X .