On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, Steven Bosscher wrote: > I doubt there are many Itanium 1 machines left in use (production or > even for hobbyists). The only Itanium1 that reached the market was the > Merced, AFAIK. But only a few 1000s of these were sold, in 2000/2001. > Most of them are probably not running anymore, and the ones still > working probably don't run ia64-linux so they don't need GCC.
Itanium 1 is less than marginal as far as Itanium goes. For example, a quick check indicates that both SLES 9 (released in summer 2004) and RHEL 4 (released half a year later) have Itanium 2 as the minimum requirement. I have a hard time seeing anyone use this in production, and given the large engery and space consumption most of these machines had, even hobbiest use. In any case, we should not hobble GCC for the sake of one or two hobbyists... > I can't find any test results in gcc-testresults reported with > -mtune=itanium1 [1]. ...especially if theye do not even contribute test results or feedback when things are broken (as in this case). Deprecating Itanium 1 with GCC 4.4 sounds very reasonable. Gerald
