compiler discussion

Following from the discussion on the system compiler for ia64,
I tried to list few major ports which I'd love to have on ia64,
but can't, because of GCC problems:

- math/blas, lapack, lapack95, arpack, scalapack, atlas, etc.
- science/hdf5-18 (fortran APIs can't be built)
- french/aster (industial quality FEA code)
- cad/calculix (another good FEA code)

All these depend on lang/gcc44, which doesn't build.

The only fortran compiler I know to build and work
successfully on ia64 is (correct me if I'm wrong) g95.

I wonder if it's possible/desirable/easy to use lang/g95 for
the above and other fortran-dependent ports? 

In principal, lang/g95 looks very good, and it's got
some features not available in gfortran, e.g. limited
support for 2003 standard.

Any comments?

Also, any comments on the usability (particularly for fortran)
of llvm and lang/llvm-gcc4 on ia64?

many thanks
anton

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