Port of GCC to Intel IA-64 architecture (Merced)

Does anyone know of a port in progress of the GNU C compiler to
Intel's new IA-64 architecture? I would greatly like to help with
such a project (or start it, if none exists). Getting a port of GCC
for the Merced would be the hardest part of porting Linux, the world's
greatest alternative to Microsoft OS, to IA-64. I started a
discussion about this on the comp.os.linux.misc newsgroup, and I
decided I should go here to discuss it with the compiler crowd :). I
have a lot of experience programming with GCC (though not much
experience with AT&T-style Assembly -- I use NASM for my assembly
language needs :), and I would be interested in getting involved in
the effort to port GCC to the Merced.


Comments and suggestions from everyone on this topic are greatly
appreciated. Please post to this newsgroup (I check it often), or for
a more personal response, email me at jpripp@ecsu.campus.mci.net.


Thanks!


Jason Tripp
jpripp@ecsu.campus.mci.net
Independent Software Developer
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