minutes of the GCC IA-64 Summit

[Janis Johnson <janis at us dot ibm dot com>]

The minutes for the GCC IA-64 Summit, held on June 6, are now available
at http://linuxia64.org/gcc_summit.2001.06.06.html.

>From the executive summary:

This one-day summit brought together a diverse group of people who share
an interest in improving GCC (the GNU Compiler Collection) for IPF (the
Itanium Processor Family, the preferred name for IA-64).  Participants
included experienced GCC developers, both with and without experience
supporting IPF; three members of the GCC Steering Committee; new GCC
developers interested in IPF support; developers of proprietary IPF
compilers who want to share their experiences in order to improve IPF
support in GCC; people interested in long-term infrastructure changes to
improve GCC for all platforms; and people from large companies who came
to learn about GCC and its current and potential viability on IPF.
There were 27 people present in Cupertino, and 10 participated by
telephone.

Those of us who organized the summit are extremely pleased with the
wealth of information that was discussed, the lists of short-term and
long-term projects that were proposed, and the opportunity we had to
meet our far-flung colleagues.

Janis