Hey Bob!

Oct 10 12:51 03, Bob Jones wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 BJ> age of some of the roots of that compiler.....  To the best of my 
 BJ> knowledge, GCC has always been a 32 bit compiler, and later also 64 
 BJ> bit systems.

The first one I ran across, on a Sparc II, was 64-bit.

 BJ> There may have been ports for some other odd ball 
 BJ> systems (such as DEC-10, 36 bit words, etc.).  I don't think GCC has 
 BJ> been drop below 32 bits for what it supports.

I'm not sure.  Maybe for minix?

 BJ> The closest thing was 
 BJ> the DJGPP stuff that I believe was a port of the GCC compiler along 
 BJ> with a 32bit DOS extension for 16 bit DOS systems running on 32 bit 
 BJ> CPUs..... 

That is what I had my hands on at one time.  There was a utility that came
with it that was fired up by autoexec.bat and/or config.sys, or whatever,
that enabled 32-bit apps to run in a DOS shell.  It has been awhile and I
don't recall all the details.

 BJ> It's been a while since I've played with systems still 
 BJ> limited to 16 bits....

Yep.  Join the club.

Life is good,
Maurice

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