Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Wayne writes:
>>  In the case of utility software such as Image, VPLUS, etc. I suspect
>>  that most of the source code needs little more than recompilation in
>>  order to work natively on an IA-64 platform.
>
>Except that these subsystems are written in languages for which there is no
>IA-64 compiler.

Hmmm...  Allegro co-wrote SPLash to compile 16-bit SPL CISC code as native
32-bit RISC code.  How about an analogous effort for the various languages
that (currently) have 32-bit RISC compilers (but no ia-64 compilers)?

I heard that Allegro has SOME compiler that produces C code from SPLash
input.  That's a step in the right direction, because there are C compilers
galore (at least for now).

Compilers ARE a fundamental issue.

Yes, I know: "ia-64" is a deprecated term, but it sounds better than
"IPF" ("Itanium Platform Family") and it is more descriptive.  Old names
die hard, particularly when they are good ones :-)

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