https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21111

--- Comment #13 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jim Wilson from comment #12)
> I no longer have access to IA-64 hardware.  I was leaving myself as
> maintainer just so that there was someone responsible for answering
> questions.  I don't care if the port survives or not.  I can resign if that
> makes things easier.
> 
> There is an ia64 debian group that has hardware, and is still doing debian
> work.  They would be disappointed if the ia64 port was deprecated.  I get
> the occasional binutils and gcc bug reports from them, and am occasionally
> able to fix them even though I don't have hardware.

Do they have a bugzilla account here that could be cc-ed?

> 
> I think that solving this bug requires that all locals get initialized to 0
> when defined.  Otherwise, you may accidentally read a register with the nat
> bit set when doing bit-field operations on a register.  I don't care enough
> about ia64 to try to fix this.

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