Questions tagged [itanium]

For questions relating to the Intel Itanium family of microprocessors. These are no longer in production, but have left various traces on the industry.

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Why was the Itanium processor difficult to write a compiler for?

It's commonly stated that Intel's Itanium 64-bit processor architecture failed because the revolutionary EPIC instruction set was very difficult to write a good compiler for, which meant a lack of good developer tools for IA64, which meant a lack of…
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GCC: assembly listing for IA64 without an Itanium machine

I need to try the following thing: I would like to compile some simple C code samples and see the assembly listing generated by GCC for IA64 architecture, i.e. I just want to run GCC with the -S switch and see the resultant .s file. I don't have an…
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