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Re: GAS port to PDP-10
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: GAS port to PDP-10
- From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars dot spam at nocrew dot org>
- Date: 01 Nov 2000 14:34:12 +0100
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: nocrew
- References: <200010312023.MAA25473@elmo.cygnus.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> : I have signed a one-year contract to port GAS (among other things) to
> : the PDP-10 architecture running the TOPS-20 operating system. The
> : PDP-10 is a 36-bit word-addressed machine. If there's anything I
> : should have in mind to make this work usable to the developers and
> : users of GNU binutils, please let me know.
> Please try to follow the GNU Coding standards.
Do you think supporting a machine here the char/short/int types are
9/18/36 bits, and doing binary I/O on files consisting of 9-bit bytes
will pose a problem?