Updated GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 14 should appear any month now, and its documentation reveals that the upcoming iteration, GCC 15, will no longer build binaries for IA64 – or Itanic, as The Reg dubs it.
Are you going to SAVE the IA-64 Itanium? Need to take over GCC maintenance next?
Development work on version 14 of GCC is still ongoing but there is an interesting paragraph in the Warnings section of the latest changes:
Support for the long-unmaintained ia64*-* target ports has been declared deprecated in GCC 14. The next version of GCC will have its sources permanently removed.
IA64 is the official sobriquet of Intel's ill-fated Itanium architecture, which is why the Reg FOSS desktop prefers it over "x64". Invented by AMD and therefore sometimes referred to as AMD64, x86-64 was not the first 64-bit architecture in the larger Intel-compatible family, and as for "x" – well, X could mean anything.
