help about new porting (.h file)

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jonah Graham wrote:

> 
> tm_gccmail@mail.kloo.net wrote:
> 
> > from "rtl.texi" line 890 of 3502:
> >
> > @findex HImode
> > @item HImode
> > ``Half-Integer'' mode represents a two-byte integer.
> >
> > HImode is always 16 bits.
> 
> Actually what that means is that it is two bytes where a byte is defined by
> BITS_PER_UNIT. While in most targets that makes it 16-bits, HImode is not
> always 16-bits. See the c4x and dsp16xx ports which have 64-bit and 32-bit
> HImodes respectively.
> 
> (But don't let that confuse the issue for a new port if you have a "normal"
> byte.)
> 
> Jonah

Thanks for the correction.

Toshi