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From: "-= ArkanoiD =-" <ark AT mpak DOT convey DOT ru>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 97 12:47:20 +0300
Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
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nuqneH,

> From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT Edu (Jason M. Daniels)
> To: ark AT mos DOT ru
> Subject: Re: ClosedDOS???
> Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com

[dd]

> >     Some think, this because no one (!), capable to port gcc, interestin=
> >g
> >by this. :(
>
> gcc assumes, to the core of its being, a 32-bit architechture. To get gcc
> to output 16-bit code would not be a 'port,' it would be a complete
> rewrite. You might as well start from scratch.

Nope. gcc requires 32-bit architecture of the machine it runs on,
but it can do 16-bit code. There already are some 16-bit gcc cross compilers.
pdp-11 one,for example. Runs on VAX or other 32-bit machine but able to
create pdp-11 code.
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