From: Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com>
To: madtom1999@yahoo.com (tom potts)
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: very old versions of GCC...
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210011801.LAA10188@atrus.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021001125451.17270.qmail@web13310.mail.yahoo.com> from "=?iso-8859-1?q?tom=20potts?=" at Oct 01, 2002 01:54:51 PM
> I have been informed that some of the old versions of
> GCC could be recursively compiled to run on 16bit
> small memory systems.
I believe that you have been misinformed. Even the very first GCC
was too big for a 16-bit address space, even with separate data and
instruction address space, plus the compiler assumes (and always did)
that ints on the host have at least 32 bits.
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2002-10-01 5:54 tom potts
2002-10-01 11:03 ` Joe Buck [this message]
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