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Re: PowerPC SVR4 ABI compliance fix

Stan Shebs wrote:-

> Geoff Keating wrote:
> > 
> > In the long run, we probably don't want to have a single word that is
> > a bitmask of all the target options.  It might be good to just add to
> > the frontend the ability to set a single 'int' variable for each
> > option, just as it does now for (for instance) the -fxxx options.
> 
> I agree with this.  The habit of using bit masks in a single global
> "to save space" was still commonplace in the 80s, but today it's just
> an archaism.

I think unsigned char is a fair compromise; that's what cpplib does 8-)

Neil.
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