Magnus Christensson wrote:
> Two things make the IA-64 register windows more attractive than the
> SPARC ones:
>
> 1. They are not of fixed size.
>
> 2. IA-64 has architectural support for saving and restoring windows
> in the background (although SPARC register windows have become
> cheaper to save and restore in recent implementations).
Cool, thanks for the info.
Now if I can get Intel to send me a beta Merced machine with Linux,
a port of GCC and friends etc, I can introduce some IA-64 code into
our FreeMWare source tree. :^)
-Kevin
