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<a name="Portability"></a>
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Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Interface.html#Interface">Interface</a>,
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<h2 class="chapter">2 GCC and Portability</h2>
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<p><a name="index-portability-2"></a><a name="index-GCC-and-portability-3"></a>
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GCC itself aims to be portable to any machine where <code>int</code> is at least
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a 32-bit type. It aims to target machines with a flat (non-segmented) byte
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addressed data address space (the code address space can be separate).
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Target ABIs may have 8, 16, 32 or 64-bit <code>int</code> type. <code>char</code>
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can be wider than 8 bits.
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<p>GCC gets most of the information about the target machine from a machine
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description which gives an algebraic formula for each of the machine's
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instructions. This is a very clean way to describe the target. But when
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the compiler needs information that is difficult to express in this
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fashion, ad-hoc parameters have been defined for machine descriptions.
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The purpose of portability is to reduce the total work needed on the
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compiler; it was not of interest for its own sake.
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<p><a name="index-endianness-4"></a><a name="index-autoincrement-addressing_002c-availability-5"></a><a name="index-abort-6"></a>GCC does not contain machine dependent code, but it does contain code
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that depends on machine parameters such as endianness (whether the most
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significant byte has the highest or lowest address of the bytes in a word)
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and the availability of autoincrement addressing. In the RTL-generation
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pass, it is often necessary to have multiple strategies for generating code
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for a particular kind of syntax tree, strategies that are usable for different
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combinations of parameters. Often, not all possible cases have been
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addressed, but only the common ones or only the ones that have been
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encountered. As a result, a new target may require additional
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strategies. You will know
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if this happens because the compiler will call <code>abort</code>. Fortunately,
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the new strategies can be added in a machine-independent fashion, and will
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affect only the target machines that need them.
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