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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
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Cc: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: llvm on ia64 ?
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 03:18:47PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 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.

Well, this is a pretty serious problem, then, because IIUC the llvm
back-end for ia64 was recently dropped because it had not been maintained
for 6 months and no longer worked at all, without any committer interest.
Perhaps someone more up-to-date with llvm will correct me.

mcl