Re: [ccp4bb]: red hat 7.2 for itanium processor?

[Swen Tromm <tromm@ebi.ac.uk>]

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The main different is the fact, that Itanium work with 64 bit address 
pointers and data, instead of 32 bit pointer of previous ix86/pentiumI-IV. 
There may be 
problems with some code e. g. the abuse of a void pointer as a pointer to 
char. The gcc compiler 3.03 support with LINUX 64.

I am not sure, that LINUX 64 or Windows 64 is able to open a "32 bit 
aera" to run unaltered 32 applications, otherwise an application should be 
recompiled and carefully tested (see above).

cheers

Swen

BTW:
the Itanium is a "geniude" Intel processor - only for 64 bit accesses

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, David J. Schuller wrote:

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> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Woo Cheol Lee wrote:
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> > we recently purchased p4 2.2ghz (1gb memory)
> > workstations and are planning to install linux on them.
> > 
> > does anyone have any experience with CCP4 or CNS(sorry)
> > on "Red Hat Linux 7.2 for the Itanium Processor"?
> > (or even with genuine intel compilers?)
> > 
> > any advice would be appreciated greatly
> 
> i don't have advice, just a question: are your two paragraphs supposed to 
> be somehow related?  what does code for the Itanium platform have to do 
> with Intel Pentium 4s?
> 
> cheers,
> 
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