The gate was using a system-wide Open Watcom that only ships the 32-bit
compiler. The project downloads its own toolchain, and .dosboxx/watcom/binnt
has the Windows-hosted 16-bit wcl.exe -- the same compiler and the same target
as the DOS build. Run that instead, with build-dos.bat's exact command.
The difference is not academic. Compiling 16-bit immediately reported three
functions the unification had orphaned: emit_type_helpers, which the M7
program emitter replaced, and emit_drop_helpers and emit_drop_fields, which it
was the only caller of. The 32-bit check had been clean.
Those warnings were going to the DOS screen, where the runner cannot see them:
COMMAND.COM redirects handle 1 only, and Watcom writes diagnostics to handle 2.
So the suite was green while the build was not quiet. Nothing in the runner
would ever have said so.
Found while chasing W210/W107 reported from a DOS screen, which this does not
yet explain -- those are not among what the compiler build emits now.
M1-M7: 214 passed.
coolguy
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