Re: Itanium support is back in GCC 15

On 11/4/2024 1:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

Itanium support will no longer be removed from GCC and Itanium will
instead continue as a supported architecture (at least for Linux).
 https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/01/gcc_15_keep_itanium_support/
 There's a call in that article for an open source full-system emulator.
Good luck with that one, especially for one that would run VMS as well. :-)
 One question: Why ? :-)

Regarding why, then it seems obvious that there are no
good commercial reason for GCC to support Itanium, but
apparently someone is willing to do the work just for fun.
And in the open source world if someone is willing
to do the work for fun then it (usually) does happen.
And Itanium is rather different from most other
architectures, so from an academic perspective it
may be interesting.
I wish someone would volunteer to create VMS support
in GCC 16 or whatever!
Arne