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Re: Target ABIs with 16bit ints.
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: nathan at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 16:00:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: Target ABIs with 16bit ints.
- References: <3DAB1BA8.9080702@codesourcery.com>
> doc/portability.texi says
> 'The main goal of GCC was to make a good, fast compiler for machines in
> the class that the GNU system aims to run on: 32-bit machines that address
> 8-bit bytes and have several general registers.'
There's a big difference between "run on" and "target". The *host*
must have 32 bit ints. The target doesn't need to.