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Re: shs.cc won't build on Solaris 2.5/sparc
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 09:06, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Modes are just as wrong, as the comment in one of the files that has
> such a work-around says. SImode is just 4 times as wide as QImode,
> but QImode may be 32-bits, in which case that's what you'd like to
> use. It's not common, but it's possible, and such ports do exist.
That was my initial reaction as well. There was a short thread on this
recently. However, I think the prevailing opinion is that it's unlikely
gcj could ever work on a platform where QImode isn't 8 bits. The
compiler really needs 8-, 16-, 32- and 64-bit wide types. There are
other parts of the runtime that use mode attributes as well.
AG