From:	Paul Shirley <Paul AT foobar DOT co DOT uk DOT chocolat>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Cross Compiler for 8086 PDA
Date:	Tue, 24 Dec 1996 18:21:19 +0000
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In article <32BA0A01 DOT 6F40 AT cs DOT com>, "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
writes
>The GNU documentation very explicitly states that they are only
>concerned with coding for 32-bit processors.  In order to get DJGPP to
>make code which is compatible with an 8086, you would have to turn it
>back into a 16-bit compiler, which simply won't work.

Having done this for a 68000 target I can confirm that gcc really hates
16 bit code. I never did get acceptably good code generation from it.

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