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I am planning to use gcc to cross compile code for a Motorola
68332 based hardware.  It was not clear from the documentation
whether gcc-2.2.2  supports the following features.

1.  Has anybody on the net used gcc to generate Motorola 68332
    instructions? 68332 instruction set is a superset of 68010
    but a subset of 68020.

2.  Can gcc generate PIC (Position Independent Code/Data) such that
    all instructions are PC-relative with 32bit offset  and global/static
    data is Ax register indirect with 32 bit offset? (Ax is one of the
    address registers). Before I execute the code, I would set up the
    Ax register to the data segment and then jump to the first instruction
    in the text segment.

    As I understand from the documentation, gcc can generate PIC code
    but puts the globals/static in a table and addresses them via
    a 16-bit offset from the base address loaded into a register. I would
    like to setup this Ax register once and the compiler should generate
    code to address global/static data as a 32bit offset from the Ax register.
    The compiler should not generate code to load the Ax register everytime
    global/static data is accessed.


    Thanks in advance for any info.


Suresh Kumar
Pi Systems Corporation
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