Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:43:19 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com>, "arch@freebsd.org" <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Removal of ICC (intel compiler) bits from mk Message-ID: <20110428154319.23661m78gvvdqmsk@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20110426154645.GA67273@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <E604222D-A731-4F0E-BF21-FF7F4306A899@gmail.com> <20110426154645.GA67273@zim.MIT.EDU>
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Quoting David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> (from Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:46:45 -0400): > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010, Rui Paulo wrote: >> Hi, >> I've been chatting with the ICC ex-users and they seem to be ok >> with the removal of the ICC bits from share/mk and other places. >> The reason is that it doesn't work and no one has volunteered to >> fix it for many years. This seems to indicate that the interest in >> ICC is low. >> If there's anyone against this, speak now or forever be silent. :-) > > For what it's worth, I still occasionally use icc for simple > tasks-- mainly as a reference for code generation, since it > produces reasonable output in many cases where gcc does not. > As I recall, making it work required minimal changes... possibly > just making sure __va_list gets defined in _types.h. I have > the following in one of my trees, although this is obviously > not the right fix. It depends if you want to hide the problem on all other compilers or not. I would prefer to not hide the problem. Bye, Alexander. -- Volley Theory: It is better to have lobbed and lost than never to have lobbed at all. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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