[syslinux] syslinux current dir

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
> I was afraid of that. :)  By the way, why is so much of the code in
> assembly?  Is it too cumbersome to handle the real mode segmented
> model in C?  People were doing it for quite some time, weren't they?
> 

Mostly a lack of freely available compilers (there is OpenWatcom, but
it's not readily packaged for Linux hosting, and is very hard for users
to build themselves), and historical reasons.

>> or Bochs (which has an internal debugger), for example; AMD also has
>> a downloadable version of SimNow! available.
> 
> I know Qemu and gdb, perhaps it's better to start with those.
> (Oh dear, I really didn't mean to get here!)  Is there a way to get
> syslinux symbol information into gdb?

Unfortunately I don't think so.

	-hpa