More than 20 years ago, a company was hired by Intel to develop an automated migration of 32-bit C++ code to 64-bit C++ code specifically for the Itanium. The

More than 20 years ago, a company was hired by Intel to develop an automated migration of 32-bit C++ code to 64-bit C++ code specifically for the Itanium. The CPU was not yet in its final form and we had access to a prototype version , it was an incredible interesting project...that was cancel after some time. Sometimes I reflect about that work and how impossible the end goal really was, but we tried!