From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C6CFD2C.31C5BE96@strakt.com> From: Boyd Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers References: <20020215120733.2EC8D19A72@mail.cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:21:00 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 51790ee0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Depends on the problem, but from what I know about the assembler output it's the loader that does the instruction generation. The PDP-11 was a 16 bit machine, but it did have 32 bit longs, and software FP support if the machine didn't have an FPU.