llvm on ia64 ?

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Dec 17 07:52:11 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 08:51:08AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:27:31PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:26:16PM +0000, giffunip at tutopia.com wrote:
> > > FWIW;
> > > 
> > > For most of the scientific/CAD stuff you need a Fortran
> > > compiler and llvm doesn't provide it.
> > 
> > I understand gcc frontend for llvm gives you fortran.
> > 
> 
> llvm can be used within gcc's new plugin framework.
> So, you would need both llvm and gcc to build on 
> IA64.  Have you tried building gcc-4.3.5 on IA64?
> gfortran in 4.3.5 is in fairly decent shape.

no, gcc43 fails to build as well

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