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Re: Supporting multiple pointer sizes in GCC

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: "Jayant R. Sonar" <Jayant dot Sonar at kpitcummins dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:37:25 -0400
Subject: Re: Supporting multiple pointer sizes in GCC
References: <371569CBCFB2E745B891DBB88B2DFDDD1A229C5E3A@KCINPUNHJCMS01.kpit.com>

"Jayant R. Sonar" <Jayant.Sonar@kpitcummins.com> writes:
> Is it possible to support multiple pointer sizes (e.g. 16bit, 32bit)
> which can co-exist in single compilation unit?
> Whether it is supported in GCC now?
> Is there any other architecture which has this feature already 
> implemented?

Yes, there are three that I know of - mips64, s390 (tpf), and m32c.

Although, these days, you might be better served by looking into the
named-address-space stuff instead.

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