Objective-C and IA-64 ?

[Jim Wilson]

In article < Pine.GSO.4.21.0102071637070.22895-100000@rossini.infopark.de > you write:
>does the current release 2.95.2 support Objective-C on the IA-64 architecture,
>i.e. Itanium? If not, will there be a release which does? Where may I find
>more information on this topic?

There is no support for IA-64 in the gcc 2.95 release.  The IA-64 port was
contributed after gcc 2.95 was released, and will not be added in.  The IA-64
port will not appear until there is a gcc 3 release.

Whether Objective-C works is a separate question.  I expect that it does not,
because it requires some obscure and often difficult to implement gcc features.
As yet no one has tried to implement these features for the IA-64 port.  This
probably will not be fixed before the gcc 3 release, as there is still a lot
of other more important work that needs to be done.

Jim