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Re: very old versions of GCC...
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: madtom1999 at yahoo dot com (tom potts)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:01:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: 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.