[Simh] Systems Engineering Labs (SEL) simh simulator available

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Dec 20 13:57:40 EST 2018



> On Dec 20, 2018, at 1:51 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 9:48 PM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> I may be missing something, but... why would you ask for a 32 bit compile?  If you want to create a kit that can run on old PCs, sure.  But for a local build, the default makes more sense, whatever that is on the machine in question.
> 
> In other words, it's hard to see why you'd have -m32 in the compiler switches.
> 
> One reason might be for code that's not 64-bit clean.
> 
> Tom

True.  But it's better and easy to fix such code.  Especially in SIMH which in some places actually requires 64 bit support, so making the whole thing 64-bit clean is a good thing.

	paul



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