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A comment on Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums. Parent comment

Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by garmaine on Saturday February 02, 2019 @06:44PM (#19066654)
> Itanium is what EFI was first developed for. Itanium is where the C++ ABI got started.

I’m legit confused. Are those supposed to be good things.

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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by kijiki on Sunday February 03, 2019 @04:51PM (#19072470)
People have different opinions on EFI, but in the time before the modern C++ ABI, every compiler (and often different versions of the same compiler) generated code with different ABI expectations, which made libraries and software distribution absolute hell.
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Re:Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, th... by garmaine on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:16PM (#19082330)
Sure but as far as ABIs go it is absolute garbage and extremely difficult to work with.
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