> >> 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.
>
> For a complete VGA BIOS, I would thing the more important thing would be
> generation of 16 bit code.

16 bit eh?  I don't know about gcc and 16 bit, gcc wasn't around back in
the PDP-11 days.  I'd think gcc would have some sort of arch config file
where you specify how many bits pointers have?  For integers you can use
int8_t, uint16_t and such.

What about pcc?

Does it *have* to be 16 bit?

Bochs has a BIOS, right?  What did they use to generate that?
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