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In article <9011262318.AA24833@life.ai.mit.edu> WILCOX@TECR.NOSC.MIL writes:
>This is not a bug report but merely a question.
>
>I have the impression that gcc assumes that the target machine must
>have 32-bit (or at least "long" type) registers.  Can gcc be targetted
>to a 16-bit register machine or a 64-bit register machine?
>
>It looks like you need a new mode, say Rmode, to replace the embedded
>SImode in some places.  For example, the move_block_to_reg routine in
>in expr.c.

On 16 bit machines, SImode is used to refer to 16 bit quantities. SImode
seems to be the size of the word length, not a 32 bit quantity as stated
in the "Using and Porting GNU CC" manual. 

				bye,
					mike


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