Re: Can gcc use 32 bit displacements?

[Daniel McCarty]

Roger Chaplin wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> So why did Motorola choose to use the 68000 CPU core instead of CPU32
> as the heart of the Dragonball?

   Because (from what I've heard) the chip was originally intented
for the Chinese pager market.  No one ever dreamed that developers
would be writing 64K programs for it and that it would be running
handheld computers.

Regards,
Daniel.