Re: Re : Re : Re : Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generationfor loading by Gujin 1/3

[H. Peter Anvin]

Etienne Lorrain wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > I've long wished that someone would do a proper 16-bit x86 port of gcc; 
>
> > however, the .code16gcc is usually good enough, although it produces 
> > code which is a lot bigger than it needs to be.
>
>   It is only that much bigger if you compare to 16 bits integer compilers,
>  but once you deal with 32 bits integers in real mode you have one extra byte
>  out of the two - which is still better than dealing with dx:ax.
>
>  Last time I compiled (long time ago) some piece of code with and without
>  .code16gcc it was approx 15% bigger - approx what you get when optimising.

That's not a valid comparison, because you're using 32-bit registers to 
hold 16-bit pointers, and then sticking 67 prefixes on completely 
unnecessarily.

	-hpa
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