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Hi, James.  Copy to bug-gcc, because this report is not completely
specific to 386's.

   The documentation is wrong: there is no such [-mshort] option.

There probably had been one in the past.  I hardly believe that
someone distributed a product, having `gcc -mshort' in the Makefile,
without ever trying it...

   I don't see any easy way to make such a thing work.  It's easy to
   set ints to be 16 bits within gcc, but I doubt it would work.

The matter is not important to me.  Would the description of -mshort
be removed from GNU C documentation, I would consider that the bug
disappeared :-).

Here is the original message, for reference.

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I'm using GNU C 1.41 under COFF encapsulation on this 386/ix 2.0.2
system.  The GNU C documentation says:

    `-mshort'
          Consider type `int' to be 16 bits wide, like `short int'.

But experience says otherwise:

   gcc -ansi -Di386 -O -DSYSV=1 -mshort -c arc.c
   gcc-cc1: Invalid option `short'

By the way, gcc.info does not confirm which version of GNU C it
pertains to.  The GNU standards dictate:

      The title page of the manual should state the version of the
   program which the manual applies to.  The Top node of the manual
   should also contain this information.
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