16bit code generation

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Sat, 28/3/09, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I don't know how well native linux openwatcom works as
> a cross-compiler, however, but that probably doesn't matter
> for this discussion?
> 
> Quite the opposite, that's exactly what we WANT to use.

Given that 1) win32 openwatcom works, 2) presumably it works correctly under wine (or relatively easy to check that if it isn't), then any difference in behavior/code-generation between win32 openwatcom under wine and native linux  
openwatcom working as a cross-compiler is either a bug or inconsequential,
then it should be relatively straight forward to check? 

It is not a trivial amount of work - compiling a bunch of random code under win32 openwatcom and cross-compiling and compare, and account for any difference if there is any - but would work well as a 3-month GSoC project?