From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: GNU Itanium cross compiler
Date: 14 Mar 2000 14:07:46 -0800
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Robert S Whitlock <roberts DOT j DOT whitlock AT juno DOT com> writes:

> >      Your post sparked some interest in me.  The Intel website has
> > some useful porting information.  It looks like Cygnus and HP have
> > ported gcc for Linux.  If I understood the figures, the port of 
> > Linux
> > is in progress right now.
> 
> Huh? Are you saying that GCC is being ported to Linux? I thought GCC was
> first *on* Linux/Unix!!

Out of context.  GCC is being ported to the Itanium (silly name, that)
architecture.  Apparently the current port works only on Linux.  And a
port of Linux itself is in progress.

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Nate Eldredge
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