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Re: BITS_PER_UNIT larger than 8 -- word addressing


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Michael Eager wrote:

> I think that there is a pervasive understanding that SImode is
> single precision integer, 32-bits long.

Only among contributors not considering non-8-bit bytes.  SImode is 4 
times QImode, 4*BITS_PER_UNIT bits, and may not exist (or at least not be 
particularly usable, much like the limitations on TImode on 32-bit 
targets) with large BITS_PER_UNIT.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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