From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: olix2000@hotmail.com
Cc: gnu@gnu.org, help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 00:00:00 -0000
Message-ID: <200003100037.BAA10358@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <200003091932.OAA06974@delysid.gnu.org>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q1/msg00358.html
Message-ID: <20000401000000.wJDRJSJHYR3fz93fKaed4TFvuvrmX18GnU0cb_myVTs@z>

> I am interested in writing a boot sector. I would like to use C and asm to 
> do this. The majority of the code for a boot sector is 16 bit code. However, 
> gcc (under linux) produces 32 bit code. Could you please tell me how to 
> force the gcc compiler to produce 16 bit code?

GCC currently does not support a 16 bit target, at least not for the
x86 architecture. So you cannot use GCC for your boot sector.

Martin