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Re: PDP-10 backend for gcc
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: PDP-10 backend for gcc
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:43:14 -0400
- Cc: lars at nocrew dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <10009121122.AA15949@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Sat, Sep 12, 1970 at 07:22:42AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> That is understood. But I'm interested in working on it if the GCC
> maintainers think it's a good idea.
>
> Am I misremembering or is the PDP-10 one's complement? If so, that's another
> issue, though a somewhat more minor one.
I suspect you are mixing it up with the Univac 110x series, which was 36 bit,
1's complement (then there was CDC with 60 bit 1's complement, and Burroughs n
bit, signed magnitude -- at the ANSI meetings, we had several vendors
representing now unusual designs).
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