GMP on IA64-HPUX

[Richard Guenther]

On 12/4/05, FX Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Below is the answer I got from the developer of GMP when I asked about
> support for ia64-hpux.
>
> >   So, in short, my questions are: is gmp-4.1.4 supposed to work on
> >   ia64-hpux?
> >
> > No, it is not.  It might be possible to get either the LP64 or
> > the ILP32 ABI to work, but even that requires the workaround you
> > mention.  Don't expect any HP compiler to compile GMP correctly
> > though, unless you switch off optimization.
> >

If it's really compiler problems, this is one more reason for pulling
gmp to the toplevel gcc, so it can be built with a sane compiler.

Richard.