GMP on IA64-HPUX

[Steve Ellcey]

> > >   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.

FYI:  What I do to compile gmp on IA64 HP-UX is to configure gmp with
'--host=none --target=none --build=none'.  This avoids all the target
specific code.  I am sure the performance stinks this way but since it
is used by the compiler and not in the run-time I haven't found it to be
a problem.  Of course I don't compile any big fortran programs either.

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com