[LLVMdev] 16 bit integers

[Sanjiv Gupta]

I was able to build and play with clang today.
Clang also promotes integer arithmetic to 32-bit.

Any pointers on how to tweak it so that it generate i16 for "int" and also
promote int operations to 16-bit operations only?

Thanks,
Sanjiv

On 3/20/08, Chris Lattner <sabre at nondot.org> wrote:
>
> 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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