why did I decide to do DOS development

writing shit in pure C fucking sucks

and i decided to do it for DOS with nothing more than fucking Watcom C (thankfully I cross-compile, it probably helps my sanity a little)

apparently Watcom has a wmake command that is not compatible with GNU make so I'm just using GNU make instead because I at least know how to write Makefiles and I don't want to learn again

and also I'm incredibly stupid so my code somehow calls an ILLEGAL INTERRUPT 6 which hangs dosbox-x

but at least I'm not writing assembly am I???

if you wish to see my struggles (also because openwatcom license is STUPID AS HELL and I am thinking of printing it and taking my Nerf gun to it to unleash my inner Doomguy) here you go

#include <conio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

void main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
	int i;
	int file;
	struct stat* stats;
	char* buf;

	printf("Hello, world\nGot passed %i arguments\n", argc);
	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
		printf("argv[%i]: %s\n", i, argv[i]);
	}

	file = open("hello.c", O_RDONLY | O_TEXT);
	if (file == -1) {
		goto file_fail;
	}
	if (fstat(file, stats) == -1) {
		goto stat_fail;
	}
	printf("Opened file handle: %i, size: %i bytes\n", file, stats->st_size);
	buf = malloc(stats->st_size);
	if (buf == 0) {
		goto alloc_fail;
	}
	printf("Buffer location: 0x%p\n", buf);
	i = read(file, buf, stats->st_size);
	// Force null byte
	if (i == -1) {
		goto read_fail;
	}
	buf[i] = '\0';
	printf("Read %i bytes. Press any key to continue . . . ", i);
	fflush(stdout);
	getch();
	printf("Here's ur data:\n%s", buf);
	free(buf);
	free(stats);
	close(file);
	exit(0);

read_fail:
	free(buf);
alloc_fail:
	free(stats);
stat_fail:
	close(file);	
file_fail:
	if (errno == 0) {
		printf("Error: memory allocation failure\n");
	} else {
		perror("Error: ");
	}
	exit(1);
}