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Re: Target ABIs with 16bit ints.
DJ Delorie wrote:
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.
yes, but this needs to be made much clearer. Some parts of gcc source
(libgcc) do then need to target smaller machines. And some parts of
gcc will not support those ABIs or not be language conforming
(C++ & its stl, c99 mode, java? at least)
nathan
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