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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:51:08 -0800
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: llvm on ia64 ?
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:27:31PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:26:16PM +0000, giffunip@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.

-- 
Steve