From: Paul Koning <paul_koning@dell.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: "Jayant R. Sonar" <Jayant.Sonar@kpitcummins.com>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Supporting multiple pointer sizes in GCC
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CD27D93D-A22C-4926-B328-F80E83827FF5@dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xnr59vrtii.fsf@greed.delorie.com>
On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:37 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> "Jayant R. Sonar" <Jayant.Sonar@kpitcummins.com> writes:
>> Is it possible to support multiple pointer sizes (e.g. 16bit, 32bit)
>> which can co-exist in single compilation unit?
>> Whether it is supported in GCC now?
>> Is there any other architecture which has this feature already
>> implemented?
>
> Yes, there are three that I know of - mips64, s390 (tpf), and m32c.
? MIPS has two pointer sizes, but a given compilation (gcc invocation) uses only one of them, it comes from the chosen ABI.
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-25 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-25 12:33 Jayant R. Sonar
2011-03-25 17:39 ` DJ Delorie
2011-03-25 17:53 ` Paul Koning [this message]
2011-03-25 18:51 ` DJ Delorie
2011-03-28 12:27 ` Jayant R. Sonar
2011-03-30 13:37 ` Claudiu Zissulescu
2011-03-31 13:45 ` Paulo J. Matos
2011-04-21 22:21 ` Michael Meissner
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