[Bug target/59672] Add -m16 support for x86

hpa at zytor dot com gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Fri Jan 3 23:09:00 GMT 2014


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59672

--- Comment #2 from H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor dot com> ---
It is much cleaner to have it in C.  We converted the assembly code to C back
in 2007 and it has been much easier to maintain ever since.  It works fine,
thankyouverymuch; it isn't *optimal* 16-bit code, but it is real and valid
16-bit code and we use it as such.

Sure, optimization would be nice.  Do we care?  Not a lot.



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