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From: gcalliet <gerard.calliet@pia-sofer.fr>
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Subject: Re: Itanium support is back in GCC 15
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 18:33:57 +0100
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Le 04/11/2024 à 21:16, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
> On 11/4/2024 1:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Itanium support will no longer be removed from GCC and Itanium will
>> instead continue as a supported architecture (at least for Linux).
>>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/01/gcc_15_keep_itanium_support/
>>
>> There's a call in that article for an open source full-system emulator.
>> Good luck with that one, especially for one that would run VMS as 
>> well. :-)
>>
>> One question: Why ? :-)
> 
> Regarding why, then it seems obvious that there are no
> good commercial reason for GCC to support Itanium, but
> apparently someone is willing to do the work just for fun.
> 
> And in the open source world if someone is willing
> to do the work for fun then it (usually) does happen.
> 
> And Itanium is rather different from most other
> architectures, so from an academic perspective it
> may be interesting.
> 
> I wish someone would volunteer to create VMS support
> in GCC 16 or whatever!
> 
> Arne
> 
Because I created (canadian method) Gnat Ada (on gcc) for VMS Itanium, 
and because we were on gcc 4.7, there is some work ahead, but why not :)

The big issue is the step to gcc 5, where they upgraded to c++ mode. It 
is one of the reasons why Adacore didn't continue support of gnat ada on 
VMS in 2015.

I have to know who likes Itanium so much :)

gcalliet