[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Dan Cross]

In article <memo.20220221204042.7708D at jgd.cix.co.uk>,
John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <suod1l$qrm$1 at reader1.panix.com>,
>cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) wrote:
>
>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> >And since it will be LLVM based then it must be x86-64 only.
>> 
>> Why do you say that? Just in the sense that they won't
>> backport to OpenVMS/Itanium or Alpha? LLVM has backends
>> for non-x86 architectures.
>
>The Alpha backend for LLVM was dropped in 2018, and there's never been
>one for Itanium. 

There was one for Itanium, but it was dropped in the 00's.

Again, the point was that LLVM is not x86-only.

	- Dan C.