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authornathan <nathan@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2002-12-23 14:43:28 +0000
committernathan <nathan@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>2002-12-23 14:43:28 +0000
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* tree.c (save_expr): Allow either side of a dyadic operand to be
constant. * doc/portability.texi (portability): Update portability goals. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@60435 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
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@c Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
-@c 1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@c 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@c This is part of the GCC manual.
@c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
@@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
@cindex portability
@cindex GCC and portability
-The main goal of GCC was to make a good, fast compiler for machines in
-the class that the GNU system aims to run on: 32-bit machines that address
-8-bit bytes and have several general registers. Elegance, theoretical
-power and simplicity are only secondary.
+GCC itself aims to be portable to any machine where @code{int} is at least
+a 32-bit type. It aims to target machines with a flat (non-segmented) byte
+addressed data address space (the code address space can be separate).
+Target ABIs may have 8, 16, 32 or 64-bit @code{int} type. @code{char}
+can be wider than 8 bits.
GCC gets most of the information about the target machine from a machine
description which gives an algebraic formula for each of the machine's