On 29 April 2014 06:45, Seima Rao wrote: >>On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Seima Rao <seimarao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> I want to try out the full IA64 contribution to gcc. >>> >>> Please advise as to which gcc is sufficient? >>> >>> p.s. I am specifically looking for sw pipelining, >>> global instr sched, interprocedural reg alloc, >>> "the full VLIW works", etc. > >>I'm not sure what you are asking, as there is only one GCC. You will >>probably do better to use the latest release, which is 4.9.0. > >>Ian > > I have already built the "latest cross gcc (i.e 4.1.1) that is available through > > crosstool-ng". GCC 4.1.1 is 8 years old, it's not the latest of anything. > Unfortunately, 4.1.1 offers very little Ia64 goodies. > > In such a case , 4.9.0 is definitely ideal. > > However, the last time I ventured out of croostool-ng land > > into beyond 4.1.1 gccs, i ran into lots of trouble. > > Therefore, I was hoping for help from tried hands all over the ia64 community. > > The information I need are the following: > > gcc-version for all latest (ia64) optimizations > gcc-core-version > glibc-version > binutils-version > linux-libc-headers-version > glibc-linuxthreads-version linuxthreads was replaced by NPTL nearly 10 years ago. Any modern versions of GCC, binutils and glibc will work fine with ia64.
