Re: llvm on ia64 ?

From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas_at_bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:28:08 +0000
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 05:34:00PM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Wed, 16.12.2009 at 15:18:47 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:50:33PM +0100, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > > I wont comment the failure but llvm does NOT support generating IA64
> > > code as the support for this was removed some 6 months or so ago....
> > > 
> > > what exactly do you want to use the llvm_at_ia64 for?
> > 
> > replacement for gcc..
> > 
> > gcc44 and 45 fail to build on ia64. From what I can gather (I'm a
> > user, not a developer) after following this for some months on gcc bugzilla,
> > gcc folks do not really have a solution, or might not even understand
> > the problem. Lots of ports of interest to me are dependent on gcc44,
> > e.g. gfortran, blas, lapack, calculix, code_aster, etc. So I'm looking
> > for a possible replacement for gcc44 on ia64
> 
> Have you tried with a recent gcc45 port? It now depends on newer
> binutils, which is required to build it with -march=native on amd64,
> perhaps you're hitting the same base-binutils-is-too-freaking-old issue?

checked again now. gcc45 fails as before:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40959

thank you

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