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Re: very old versions of GCC...


> I have been informed that some of the old versions of
> GCC could be recursively compiled to run on 16bit
> small memory systems.

I believe that you have been misinformed.  Even the very first GCC
was too big for a 16-bit address space, even with separate data and
instruction address space, plus the compiler assumes (and always did)
that ints on the host have at least 32 bits.



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