Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 17:29:24 02/08/03
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I wrote some Visual C CRT code for IA-64, and it was not hard at all. Actually it's much simpler than writing x86 assembly code. Hard part is to force the *compiler* use some architecture features. But human can do it easily. Thanks, Eugene On February 08, 2003 at 17:15:20, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 07, 2003 at 23:29:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Go back 30 years to the HP 2100 micro-programmable machine. The >>micro-instructions were similar in concept with the IA64 in a gross way, >>yet we had students programming that machine with no problems. It is different. >>It requires a bit of "new thinking". But multiple instruction parcels in a >>single long word is not _that_ bad... > >It's not just multiple instructions in one word. > >Have you done any IA-64 programming yourself or talked with someone who has? >Because everybody I know who has has one thing to say about it: it's such a pain >that you shouldn't bother trying. > >-Tom
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