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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix needs a C compiler with source
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Date: 21 Feb 90 09:45:53 GMT
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(about how difficult it would be to add 80x86 code generation for my
compiler)

I dislike Intel processors very much, so I won't do anything on it.
I have put some assumptions in the expression parser that longs are more
or less compatible with pointers (when doing pointer additions, the ints
are casted to long, the longs are multiplied and the result is supposed
to be an acceptable offset for a pointer).

My personal opinion is: Forget about 8088,8086,80286 and use 80386 in
32-bit mode.

P.S. I would like to send the compiler to the referees and have to uuencode
the compressed tar file. How many compression bits may I use (13?).

/Christoph van Wuellen, Bochum, Germany.