Re: gas/config/tc-alpha.c

[Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 01:08:23PM +1000, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Michael Meissner wrote:
> 
> > > I guess it doesn't matter a great deal as binutils is riddled with this
> > > sort of assumption about sizes of integral types.  I did have some idea of
> > > attacking the problem, but it seems a whole lot of work for little
> > > immediate benefit.
> > 
> > Or include limits.h (presumably also checking if limits.h exists via autoconf),
> > and base the #if on whether you have 8 bit bytes and 16 bit longs, which would
> > be the portable way of doing it.
> 
> Why not go all the way and have bfd provide bfd_int8, bfd_int16, et.al.
> That way:
> 
> 	((bfd_signed_vma) (bfd_int16) val)
> 
> would work optimally.

Well there have been C systems out there that didn't have 8/16/32 bit types of
any form.  Most of them are dead or not a hosted platform (ie, the TI C54x
doesn't have bytes in at all, and sizeof (int) == sizeof (char)).

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