gcc and intel ia64

[Oliver Diedrich]

In some tests, we found a quite bad performance of gcc binaries under
Linux, compared with binaries compiled by the SGI Pro64 C compiler. From
a look into the generated assembler code, it seems that gcc
(gnupro-2.96-001117p2, included in the TurboLinux distribution) does not
support the advanced features of this processor. Is there any work in
progress for a better support of the ia64 architecture?

Regards, Oliver

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