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The theory is that since gas must already support these 16-bit
instructions for the i386 anyway, it should be trivial to tell it that
the *default* size should be assumed different, so that it would
produce code that assumed it was running in a 16-bit segment instead
of a 32-bit segment.
Well, if the theory holds true, this won't cost us much.
Then, the only work that would need to be done
is to produce dos-style OMF output, which is also used for some 32-bit
systems.
This isn't useful for the GNU system at all; it should have lower
priority than work that does help the GNU project. That's crucial for
people who would work either on this or on some other GNU work. I
hope they'll make sure they are not spending substantial time on this.