On 360, 12 26, 2007 at 04:59:23PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > 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.
Wrong, read here: http://devpit.org/wiki/Compiler_Options_for_Creating_Odd_Binaries You can look at realmode part of Linux kernel startup code for an example. -- Andrey Panin | Linux and UNIX system administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key: wwwkeys.pgp.net
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