From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
To: dj@stealth.ctron.com
Cc: hjl@nynexst.com, gas2@cygnus.com, masaki@eie.minolta.co.jp, raeburn@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [masaki@eie.monolta.co.jp: GAS bug and etc]
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 10:31:00 -0000
Message-id: <9411111830.AA21125@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
References: <9411111450.AA12152@delorie>
X-SW-Source: 1994/msg00191.html

Supporting 16-bit mode assembly for the 386 is not harmful if it is
easy, but if it takes up a lot of time, then it might be better off
left out.  Do we need to have a program that runs in 16-bit mode for
booting?  If so, how big a program would it have to be?  (I presume
all it needs to do is switch to 32-bit mode.)  Might it be easier to
hand assemble that program than to add and subsequently maintain this
gas feature?