llvm dev - Mar 2008 - [LLVMdev] 16 bit integers

How can I build the front-end to generate 16-bit integers?

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Duncan Sands wrote:
>> How can I build the front-end to generate 16-bit integers?
>
> Please clarify your question.
> If you are asking how to build llvm-gcc for a 16 bit target,
> I think the answer is: (1) gcc itself doesn't support 16 bit
> targets; (2) llvm doesn't currently support any 16 bit targets
> (but could with a little work).  So you are out of luck unless
> you are willing to work on it.
Note that if you only care about C/ObjC (not C++, fortran, ada, etc) that 
clang may be a good option for you.

-Chris

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On Mar 19, 2008, at 1:11 AM, Duncan Sands wrote:
> I think the answer is: (1) gcc itself doesn't support 16 bit
> targets;
gcc does, in fact, support some 16-bit targets.

-eric