This is the mail archive of the
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: New back end ia16: 16-bit Intel x86
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Ross Ridge <rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:36:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: New back end ia16: 16-bit Intel x86
- References: <20070731000101.376AF741DE@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
On Jul 31, 2007, at 2:01 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen writes:
This is a patch set to add a new back end for 16-bit x86 CPUs.
Umm... is "ia16" the best name for this target? According to Intel,
I also find ia16 cryptic, unless this is a standard name I am not
aware of.
i8086 is IMHO better than i386-16 (and dashes shouldn't appear in cpu
names).