On Wednesday 26 December 2007, Dieter wrote: > > The main limitation of GCC is that it can only generate 32-bit code. > > Huh? Gcc has been dropping a lot of essential support, but it isn't > quite *that* bad. Gcc still generates LP64 code. There are plenty of > incompetent *programmers* that can only generate (buggy) ILP32 code.
I was talking about x86. amd64 long mode is irelevant. Of course you can generate 64-bit code for suitable targets, but for writing a BIOS that's even less use than 32-bit code. The point is that gcc can not generate 16-bit/real mode x86 code. For that you need to use something like bcc. Paul _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
