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Re: [doc patch]: Clarify portability
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 23:21:45 +0100
- Subject: Re: [doc patch]: Clarify portability
- References: <3DAB398A.1030908@codesourcery.com>
Nathan Sidwell wrote:-
> ***************
> *** 8,17 ****
> @cindex portability
> @cindex GCC and portability
>
> ! The main goal of GCC was to make a good, fast compiler for machines in
> ! the class that the GNU system aims to run on: 32-bit machines that address
> ! 8-bit bytes and have several general registers. Elegance, theoretical
> ! power and simplicity are only secondary.
>
> GCC gets most of the information about the target machine from a machine
> description which gives an algebraic formula for each of the machine's
> --- 8,17 ----
> @cindex portability
> @cindex GCC and portability
>
> ! GCC itself aims to be portable to any machine where 'int' is at least
> ! a 32-bit type. It aims to target machines with a flat (non-segmented) byte
> ! addressed address space. Target ABIs may have 8, 16, 32 or 64 bit 'int'
> ! type.
You should be double-spacing between sentences.
Neil.