On 03/05/2012 05:24 PM, Peter Bigot wrote:
> And is there any reason (other than it doesn't seem to have been done
> before) to believe PSImode is the wrong way to support a
> general-purpose 20-bit integral type in gcc?

If you're using 4.7.0, it should be possible to use FRACTIONAL_INT_MODE
and get reasonable results. However, it hasn't been tested much, since
the final bits of the patch series which would have added 40 bit int
support to the C frontend didn't make it in. See the discussion following
  http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-07/msg00079.html


Bernd

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