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 14:27:00 -0000
Message-id: <9411112227.AA21589@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
References: <9411111848.AA05929@delorie>
X-SW-Source: 1994/msg00195.html

    The theory is that since gas must already support these 16-bit
    instructions for the i386 anyway, it should be trivial to tell it that
    the *default* size should be assumed different, so that it would
    produce code that assumed it was running in a 16-bit segment instead
    of a 32-bit segment.

Well, if the theory holds true, this won't cost us much.

			  Then, the only work that would need to be done
    is to produce dos-style OMF output, which is also used for some 32-bit
    systems.

This isn't useful for the GNU system at all; it should have lower
priority than work that does help the GNU project.  That's crucial for
people who would work either on this or on some other GNU work.  I
hope they'll make sure they are not spending substantial time on this.