Re: shs.cc won't build on Solaris 2.5/sparc

[Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>]

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 09:06, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Modes are just as wrong, as the comment in one of the files that has
> such a work-around says.  SImode is just 4 times as wide as QImode,
> but QImode may be 32-bits, in which case that's what you'd like to
> use.  It's not common, but it's possible, and such ports do exist.

That was my initial reaction as well.  There was a short thread on this
recently.  However, I think the prevailing opinion is that it's unlikely
gcj could ever work on a platform where QImode isn't 8 bits.  The
compiler really needs 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-bit wide types.  There are
other parts of the runtime that use mode attributes as well.

AG