Re: "Goto statement considered superfluous" (was: If you were inventing C)

On 27 Sep 2004 01:32:48 -0700, riplin@Azonic.co.nz (Richard) wrote:

>Robert Wagner <robert@wagner.net.yourmammaharvests> wrote
> 
>
>No. Wrong.
>
>Fujitsu """announced today their plans to work with Intel Corporation
>on the development of a COBOL compiler optimized for Intel's future
>IA-64 processor family."""
>
>In 1999 they announced a _plan_ to work on developing a compiler.  As
>far as I can tell it hasn't been delivered.  Given the prospects for
>IA-64, I doubt it ever will.

You're right. Fujitsu recently said they intend to support 64-bit.

The prospects for Itanium (aka Itanic) may be poor but 64-bit Xeon
looks good.
 
>
>As far as I can tell the IA-64 compiler was announced for AIX on
>IA-64. However,  this version of AIX was never made generally
>available - Monteray was cancelled.

That's true, but HP-UX and Tru64 flavors of Unix run on IA-64.

>While MF discuss HP-UX for IA-64 it specifies that it is 32 bit only
>(see column heading).

Last w Tom Driscoll said here: "We have MF Server Express running
in 64 bit mode, on HP-UX v11.1"
 
>
>Again for AIX which was never available.

You're  right. Well it does produce 64-bit code for Power PC.
 
>
>Can you show where there is any _released_ versions for 64 bit mode
>operation.

I can't find any evidence. It looks like a Micro Focus compiler, so if
it's not 64-bit now, it will be soon.