[masaki@eie.monolta.co.jp: GAS bug and etc]

[artk@congruent.com (Arthur Kreitman)]

>   Date: Fri, 11 Nov 94 17:27:20 -0500
>   From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
>
>       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.

   I would also point out that if you're interested, as I am, in being 
compatible with the Evil Empire (Microsoft), that the value of any omf 
or sixteen bit work will be zero real soon.