[LLVMdev] Being able to know the jitted code-size before emitting

[Chris Lattner]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2008, at 12:05 AM, Evan Cheng wrote:
>>
>> Are there machines where instructions may not be byte sized?
>
> Yes, but we will never care about them.  :-)  They are curiosities of
> history or of deeply embedded and specialized designs.

Depending on how you count, itanium instructions are either 128bit fixed 
or 42 bits each (IIRC).  We'd want to count the former way :)

-Chris

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