porting to 18 bit architecture

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Lars,

> The general question now: Is it possible to port binutils to a machine thats 
> word length can not be divided by 8 or could we ran into trouble somewhere ?

Yes it is possible, but yes you will also run into trouble somewhere.  I say 
that because as far as I know this would be the first time that an attempt has 
been made to port the binutils to an 18-bit address space machine and so you 
are likely to run across "powers-of-two" assumptions somewhere in the code. 
This does not mean that the port cannot be done, and in fact it would be good 
to locate and remove such erroneous assumptions.  It is just that you will need 
to be extra careful when you are coding.

Cheers
   Nick