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Re: New back end ia16: 16-bit Intel x86
Jan Hubicka wrote:
> It seems to me that whole discussin here is going wrong dirrection.
> Discussing pros and cons of maintaining separate ia16 backend relative
> to merged i386 implementation from ia16 only maintainer POV is probably
> not going to bring anything good. We need to optimizie for overall
> maintainibility of the compiler as a whole.
Right.
I think that it would be much better to have 16-bit support as part of
the current x86 back end, both from our point of view as developers
(because there is a fair amount of commonality) and from the point of
view of users (because having different compilers for the same CPU is
odd, and some developers will want to develop both 16-bit and 32-bit code).
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