GAS port to PDP-10

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:
> : I have signed a one-year contract to port GAS (among other things) to
> : the PDP-10 architecture running the TOPS-20 operating system.  The
> : PDP-10 is a 36-bit word-addressed machine.  If there's anything I
> : should have in mind to make this work usable to the developers and
> : users of GNU binutils, please let me know.
> Please try to follow the GNU Coding standards.

Do you think supporting a machine here the char/short/int types are
9/18/36 bits, and doing binary I/O on files consisting of 9-bit bytes
will pose a problem?