Re: How to compile SGI Pro64 Source code on Itanium

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:17:15AM -0700, Chan, Sun C wrote:
> I suggest you hold off doing that. There are issues in that
> GCC is not stable enough to give you a native compiler. Someone
> in my group tried that. You'll be better off with a cross compiler.
> If you want, I can ask him to forward you his findings.

At one time for some reason I also tried to generate a ppc to ia64
cross compiler. This first needed various hackery in the source to compile
with gcc 2.95 and to set some big endian symbols; but then in the end I got 
very strange crashes in the C frontend. I eventually gave up when I discovered
that the ppc gdb at that time wasn't strong enough to properly process the
resulting core files.

-Andi